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@jonippolito@digipres.club
2026-02-13 14:11:12

A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses?
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"You suspect one of your 'students' in an online class is actually an AI agent. You alert the other students not to interact with their synthetic classmate but the bot calls you out for human gatekeeping and posts a link to a blog post accusing you of discrimination. This precipitates a fervent conversation among your students about the rights of artificial intelligences."

A rogue AI agent infiltrates your online class. What do you do? Inspired by Marc Watkins’ provocative AI scenarios for educators, I’ve imagined a troubling situation of my own drawn from a real… | Jon Ippolito
A rogue AI agent infiltrates your online class. What do you do? Inspired by Marc Watkins’ provocative AI scenarios for educators, I’ve imagined a troubling situation of my own drawn from a real case. What would you do if a bot enrolled in your course and publicly shamed you when you tried to remove it? It sounds like science fiction, but a version of this just unfolded in an online forum for software developers. As I learned in FromThePage’s presentation on AI and crowdsourcing yesterda…