Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT
Cotton, D. R. E., Cotton, P. A., & Shipway, J. R. (2024). Chatting and cheating: Ensuring academic integrity in the era of ChatGPT. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 61(2).
AI text detectors are unreliable and easily gamed; universities should redesign assessment and teach ethical AI use instead of policing their way out of the problem.
It moved the integrity conversation from “catch cheaters” to “design assessments worth doing honestly” — a far harder but more durable agenda.
Our Global University AI Policy Audit 2026 codes policy content across 186 universities, and academic-integrity provisions are the single most common policy element \u2014 confirming Cotton\u2019s diagnosis of what institutions actually prioritized first.