The software says my student cheated using AI. They say they’re innocent. Who do I believe? | Robert Topinka

In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrongRobert Topinka a senior lecturer in media and cultural studies at Birkbeck, University of LondonWhen I sat down to mark undergraduate student essays in the spring of 2023, the hype around ChatGPT was already at giddy heights. Like teachers everywhere, I was worried that students would succumb to the temptation to outsource their thinking to the machine. Many universities, including mi