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Is everyone in college cheating with ChatGPT?

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Natasha Kaiser and Kyle Green with host Evan Dawson on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Monday, June 16, 2025
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"Everyone is cheating their way through college" — with ChatGPT.

That's the viral headline from last month in New York Magazine. The piece cites college professors who say they are overwhelmed with how AI has infiltrated academic life. Students use it regularly and some claim they cannot succeed without it.

So where is the line between cheating and learning? How can educators assess students in the age of ChatGPT? And really, is everyone cheating?

Our guests discuss it:

  • Kyle Green, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Sociology at SUNY Brockport
  • Natasha Kaiser, rising senior in the photojournalism program at RIT and intern with WXXI News

Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.
Megan Mack is the executive producer of "Connections with Evan Dawson" and live/televised engagement programming.