The problem here is not with children. Children learn in classrooms with teachers who supervise them closely all day. Preventing them using calculators, smartphones, laptops, or whatever else, is very easy assuming you have the basics of classroom discipline in place. This genre of articles bemoaning the effect of LLMs on cheating is coming exclusively from universities, and it's noticeable how the most obvious solution of having students just do the work in class whilst the teacher watches is completely unthinkable to them. It works fine in high school, but universities refuse to do it.
They could do, of course. It doesn't have to be the professors who supervise. Anyone can patrol a hall, or heck, why not use AI to do it? The local CS department can easily knock up some ML models that detect students using smartphones via CCTV. Provisioned laptops can be locked down with recorded screens, etc. Fundamentally supervising students can be done at scale, but universities would apparently rather let their classes and credentials sink (further) into meaninglessness rather than change their ways.
The problem here is not with children. Children learn in classrooms with teachers who supervise them closely all day. Preventing them using calculators, smartphones, laptops, or whatever else, is very easy assuming you have the basics of classroom discipline in place. This genre of articles bemoaning the effect of LLMs on cheating is coming exclusively from universities, and it's noticeable how the most obvious solution of having students just do the work in class whilst the teacher watches is completely unthinkable to them. It works fine in high school, but universities refuse to do it.
They could do, of course. It doesn't have to be the professors who supervise. Anyone can patrol a hall, or heck, why not use AI to do it? The local CS department can easily knock up some ML models that detect students using smartphones via CCTV. Provisioned laptops can be locked down with recorded screens, etc. Fundamentally supervising students can be done at scale, but universities would apparently rather let their classes and credentials sink (further) into meaninglessness rather than change their ways.