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ANU accused of ‘hysterical’ response to students using AI to cheat as unis scramble to ‘secure’ assessments

Australia risks ‘shipping’ intellectual capability overseas if educational rigour not restored, experts warnGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn academic at the Australian National University has accused it of a “hysterical” response to students using AI to cheat, as tertiary institutions rush to shore up the credibility of assessments.But a colleague […]

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Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content

Follow the day’s latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a community medical centre.AAP reports the boy was found critically injured outside Craigieburn Community hospital in Melbourne’s north about 7.50pm on Wednesday. A

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Writing is an exercise in the art of persuasion. If we use AI we lose the art | Alan Finkel

Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AIA few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which she reported on excessive use of AI chatbots by students to write their essays.In

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Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacyAfter a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and school login pages being defaced by hackers, the US tech firm Instructure – which operates the education platform Canvas, used by education providers

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In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried

The fast take-up of innovative technology risks creating a ‘two-speed system’, an Independent Schools Australia paper warnsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOnce upon a time, school students would submit an essay, and teachers would mark it. Job done.Enter “Thinking Mode”. Now, in some Australian schools, once a student finishes an

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