Artificial intelligence systems can write text, generate graphics and even produce presentation slides, all common components of assessments. The wide availability of tools of this type, all of which are improving all the time, represents a threat to academic integrity. These slides, presentation at the European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022, explore the development of this problem, the type of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions that are out there and suggest some ways in which the educational sector may consider how we work with this technology in the future.

1. Artificial Intelligence Led
Threats To Academic
Integrity
Dr Thomas Lancaster - Imperial College London, UK
European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022
#ECAIP2022

2. Dr Thomas Lancaster
http://www.thomaslancaster.co.uk
@DrLancaster
A Computer Scientist, who is aiming
to simplify some of the complexities of
Natural Language Processing for an
academic integrity audience

3. How artificial intelligence in NLP challenges academic integrity to evolve,
student presentation at the First Imperial College London Academic
Integrity in STEMM Student Research Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWKyDJywH5s&t=10914s
Upcoming book
Acknowledgements

5. Scene Setting
Many assignment types are available to purchase
online (contract cheating)
The “human computer” has made it possible for the
business world to outsource tasks at affordable prices
Technology is now in a position to allow the “human
computer” to be replaced or supplanted

6. “We must remove the
drudgery of writing”

7. “With more written pages,
there are more ways for
customers to find us”

8. “The better our writing
model, the more we can
charge for it”

10. Making mathematical and statistical decisions based on
massive quantities of data

11. If I wanted to write a novel in the
style of J.R.R. Tolkien, I would
establish rules, such as…
Words commonly used by Tolkien and the
combinations they were used within
The general rules of required to form valid English in
the style of Tolkien and others
How to create memory and consistency throughout
the novel
and much more, this is a vast oversimplification…

12. Generative Pre-trained
Transformer 3 (GPT-3)
A commercial language model released
by OpenAI in 2020, which has “learned”
how to write from petabytes of web data,
books and other sources
This is not the only such model and others are available and in development
Even just partial use of this model is powerful for specific tasks

13. Generated from AI Dungeon, for the goal “write better essays”

15. Essay structures and content

16. Essays with rewritten content and
fake citations

18. Automated literature reviews

19. Literature comparisons (and
summaries)

20. https://twitter.com/DrLancaster/status/1494
067992627494917
Fiction

21. Marketing Materials

22. Computer
programming source
code

23. Interview questions
(and model answers)

24. Presentation slides (and scripts)

25. Images
“lecture of college students”

27. https://best-universities.net/features/what-grades-can-ai-get-in-college/

29. The marketing is
there!

30. Real people are
working on this
“problem”

32. Future Considerations
AI generation tools are widely available and improving
all the time – research into detection is limited
The tools cost money to develop and run, so there
are usually charges to use them
Using these tools tends to require human
intervention
These tools are also available for use by the
contract cheating industry

33. Closing Question
How do we work with emerging
technology in education, instead of
against it?

34. Connect With Me
My Email: thomas@thomaslancaster.co.uk
My Website: http://thomaslancaster.co.uk
My Blog: http://thomaslancaster.co.uk/blog
My LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/thomaslancaster
My Twitter: @DrLancaster
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