The cheating scandals at South Korea’s top universities, especially the one incident where students used ChatGPT on a test for a class literally called “Natural Language Processing and ChatGPT” show that schools are fighting a battle they can’t win if they don’t change their outdated system.

From my perspective, AI should not be banned. Over ninety percent of college students in South Korea already use it for schoolwork, and the same situation is happening everywhere else. Trying to stop it completely is impossible and pointless. Instead, schools need clear rules that teach students how to use AI properly.

In my opinion, students should be able to use AI as a tool for research, brainstorming or fixing grammar, but they should never copy answers straight from AI and turn them in as their own work.

For all tests taken in a class, AI should be completely forbidden unless the teacher specifies how it can be used. Anyone caught using it should get a zero on that test. For papers and projects done outside of school, students should have a citation page at the end of their presentation to credit websites.

The first time someone cheats with AI, they should get a zero on the assignment and have to take a short class about using AI the correct way. The second time, they fail the course. If the student keeps on doing it, they should be suspended. This way, students learn instead of just getting punished for one mistake.

According to the New York Times Article “A.I. Cheating Rattles Top Universities in South Korea,” Professor Park Joo Ho said teachers can no longer test students on memorizing facts because AI does that better than any human. Schools should start to ask more questions that need creativity and real understanding, things AI cannot do well. An example for a creative solution could be to give the student a prompt to answer on the spot.

These scandals are not the students fault entirely. Universities have been slow to change, and until they create new kinds of tests and teach the proper ways to use AI, problems like this will keep happening. AI is a part of the future, so education will have to adapt to it as it advances.