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Cameron H. post:
Generative Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are unethical to use to complete homework assignments. Stahl and Eke (2023) state that generative AI presents several ethical implications such as accountability, responsibility, and individual autonomy. When students have AI complete their homework for them instead of learning how to do it by themselves, they are taking responsibility for their education away from themselves. Without holding students accountable for their work, there is no purpose for doing homework in the first place. The first reason why it is unethical is that students lose their academic integrity. While turning in AI-written work may not be directly plagiarized from another source, it is not the student’s work. Stahl and Eke (2023) state that authorship and accountability for work are brought into question when using AI to write something because it becomes unclear who owns the work. By having AI complete homework for you and turning it into a teacher, you are essentially cheating. Next, using AI for homework defeats the purpose of learning how to build valuable life skills. School is there to help students learn how to think critically, problem solve, and communicate with others. All of these aspects of intellectual development start to become limited when students abuse using AI to do their work. Stahl and Eke (2023) discuss how AI can impact individual autonomy. Students should not use AI to do their homework because it will limit how they use their brain to think independently. Of course, AI is not completely unethical when used correctly. Students should use AI as a tool to help them with their schoolwork but not as a replacement. Teachers can use AI to help better understand a topic the student is struggling with, help them brainstorm ideas, or even help proof problems they already made.
Reference:
Stahl, B. C., & Eke, D. (2023). The ethics of ChatGPT: Exploring the ethical issues of an emerging technology. AI & Society.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268401223000816
Paul D. post:
The article “AI-assisted academic cheating: a conceptual model based on postgraduate student voices” researched into motivations and reasoning behind the notion that using ChatGPT or similar applications for academic work is seen as being unethical. The authors describe the term of AI-assisted academic cheating as “the use of AI technologies to produce assignments, essays or exam responses without student effort”. In other words, students submit the works produced by applications as their own, which is the basis of pretending to have knowledge and skills that are not their own. This therefore breaches the basic standards of academic integrity which depend on a set of principles of honesty, fairness and responsibility. As stated in the paper, “copying from the AI application, word rephrased so that it is not detected by any plagiarism checker or not informing about using applications for academic purposes” are all considered academic dishonesty because they all conceal the source of the work.
Our study led to the conclusion that students will inevitably lose the learning experience gained from the efforts to accomplish the assigned tasks when they make use of an artificial intelligence (AI) application to finish those assignments. In this context, the fact that students fully surrender their assigned work to an AI system and later submit the output provided by the application without doing even a bit of the work assigned is regarded as academic cheating. As mentioned earlier, the main purposes of assigned works are to enhance students’ learning and nurture their abilities to think critically, write efficiently, and solve problems effectively. If the assigned work is fully completed by an AI application, students will lose the intellectual knowledge and experience they are supposed to acquire when they finish the work themselves. What is more, the rampant use of such cheating applications in the academic environment will disrupt the fairness of assessment and grading. It will also diminish the credibility of the degree awarded to students for their studies at educational institutions. In summary, although the AI tool supports the learning process to some extent, it is extremely unethical if students use it without fully explaining the ways in which they accomplish the assigned work, without feeling the strain and difficulties of finishing that work and therefore without gaining any knowledge or benefit from that work assigned. Therefore, using an AI tool to generate academic work without specifying the transparency and efforts that students exert in their assigned work is considered academic dishonesty and leads to the death of learning (Hanh & Duyen, 2025).
References:
Hanh, N. V., & Duyen, N. T. (2025). AI-assisted academic cheating: A conceptual model based on postgraduate student voices . Frontiers in Computer Science, 7, 1682190. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2025.1682190