At our most recent AIR|GPT podcast meetup (our regular monthly “airport” gathering), Caroline Kurban jump-started the discussion with a startling experiment. She had tested Perplexity’s Comet, an agentic AI tool, on a 60-hour Coursera course. The result? The AI completed it in under 30 minutes, aced all assignments and assessments, and sidestepped academic integrity guardrails without breaking a sweat.

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AIR | GPT: Cheating? Forget About It! Asking the Right Questions About Agentic AI and Education

What began as a technical discussion about a disruptive new form of AI turned into a broader reckoning about verification, meaning, and the erosion of educational legitimacy. The natural instinct might be to ask: How do we stop students from cheating? But as our conversation unfolded, Ruben Puentedura, Caroline Kurban, Liz Kolb, Helen Crompton, and I (with Errol St. Clair Smith guiding us) found ourselves pivoting toward deeper questions: How do we maintain trust and verification? How can we recenter learning over credentials? In an agentic AI world, how do you prove you’re human? And how do we build agents that work with students, not for them?

Listen to the episode to hear where we landed—and where we’re still searching.

Below is a list of all the episodes of AIR | GPT

1. The Creators of SAMR, TPACK, Triple E, SETI, and GenAI-U Launch New Podcast With a Review of NoteBook LM
2. Para-social Relationships: The Pros and Cons of Falling in Love With Generative AI
3. 2024 Mic Drop on the AIR GPT Podcast
4. AI Schools Are Catching On: What They Get Wrong, What They Get Right, What They Are Teaching Us About Teaching
5. Some Think More Deeply With Gen AI, Some Less: Here’s What’s Behind The Emerging Critical Thinking Divide
6. The Science and Art of Teaching Creativity in the Age of Gen AI: What Every Educator Needs to Understand
7. The Blindspots in AI Guardrails, Guidelines, and Good Intentions: What We Need, What We Don’t, and Why
8. All Gen AI Studies Are Not Created Equal: What These Two Highly Cited Studies Overlooked, Why It Matters
9. Grok This: When AI Goes Off the Rails, What Educators Need To Know About the Root Causes
10. Three Years of Gen AI: The Lessons We’ve Learned, What We Plan to Do Differently As We Head Back to School
11. Pedagogical Debt: What We Owe Our Students in an AI World
12. Cheating? Forget About It! Asking the Right Questions About Agentic AI and Education