{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-07T02:55:50.186Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"academic-integrity","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":2,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":2},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-konkuk-university-student-given-zero-and-f-after-friend-solved-midterm-with-ai-via-hidden-camera-and-smartwatch","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'지난 14일 건국대 한 학과 중간고사에서 AI를 활용한 부정행위가 적발됐다. 문제가 발생한 과목은 해당 학과의 전공 과목으로 수강인원이 100여 명에 달한다.'; '담당 교수는 사건 발생 이튿날인 15일 학생들에게 “시험에서 부정행위를 한 학생이 적발됐다”고 공지했다.'; '“해당 학생은 가슴에 부착한 카메라를 이용해 시험 문제를 친구에게 보냈고, 그의 친구는 AI를 이용해 문제를 푼 뒤 답안을 해당 학생의 스마트워치로 전송했다”고 설명했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'a Konkuk University student was caught cheating on a midterm exam by sending questions through a hidden chest camera to a friend, who solved them with AI and sent the answers to the student’s smartwatch.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the professor's notice to students on 15 October 2026 as reported by JoongAng Ilbo, in a midterm exam on 14 October 2026 in a major course of about 100 students at Konkuk University, a student sent the exam questions to a friend using a camera attached to the chest; the friend solved the questions using AI and sent the answers to the student's smartwatch.","causal_attribution":"The professor's notice relayed in one reporting chain (Korean original and its English version); the AI tool is not named; reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'담당 교수는 A씨가 시험에서 만점을 맞은 것을 수상히 여겨 그를 불러 같은 문제를 직접 풀어보라고 요구했다. 그러나 A씨는 제대로 답을 적어내지 못했고, 추궁 끝에 이 같은 사실을 털어놨다고 한다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The professor said they grew suspicious when the student earned a perfect score and called the student in to solve the same problems again in a controlled environment. The student failed to write the answers properly and confessed after being questioned, according to the professor’s notice.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the professor's notice, the professor became suspicious when the student scored full marks, called the student in to solve the same problems again, and the student could not write the answers and confessed after questioning.","causal_attribution":"The professor's account in one reporting chain; reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'대학 측은 “AI와 스마트워치를 이용해 답안 작성에 부정행위를 한 사실이 적발돼 담당 교수는 규정에 따라 해당 학생의 시험을 0점 처리하고 F학점을 부과했다” 했다.'; '해당 학과는 기말고사부터 모든 종류의 카메라와 시계 반입을 금지하고 안경도 검사하기로 했다.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'“Because it was found that the student cheated by writing the answers using AI and a smartwatch, the professor in charge gave the student a zero on the exam and an F in the class in accordance with regulations,” the university said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the university, the professor gave the student a zero on the exam and an F in the course under the regulations because the student was found to have cheated by writing answers using AI and a smartwatch; the department decided to ban all cameras and watches from the final exam onward and to inspect eyeglasses.","causal_attribution":"The university's statement relayed in one reporting chain; the university's own record of the grade is not inspected; reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"zero on the midterm exam and an F in the course for AI-assisted cheating (university's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25471463","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in Korean on 2026-10-22 from the publisher page (HTTP 200); translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator reviewed it. JoongAng Ilbo exclusive published 21 October 2026, 05:00 KST (print edition page 10), citing the professor's notice to students and a university statement ('21일 대학가에 따르면').","independence_group":"joongang-konkuk-report-2026-10-21"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/ai-cheating-tests-korean-universities-as-schools-struggle-to-keep-up/12931532","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). Korea JoongAng Daily's English version of the s1 report, published 21 October 2026; its footer says it was translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools and edited by the newsroom. Same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"joongang-konkuk-report-2026-10-21"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool the friend used.","Whether the friend is a student and whether the friend faced any consequence.","Whether the student appealed the penalty or faced further disciplinary action beyond the zero and the F."],"geography":{"basis":"The exam took place at Konkuk University, which the reports place among universities in Seoul ('서울의 한 대학'), South Korea. The student's nationality and residence are not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a sanction for prohibited AI use: the university says it gave a student a zero and an F after a midterm in which, according to the professor's notice, a friend solved the questions with AI and relayed the answers to the student's smartwatch; the student confessed. No student is identified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The professor's notice says the friend used AI to solve the midterm questions the student sent by camera and sent the answers to the student's smartwatch, and the university says the student was penalised for cheating by writing answers using AI and a smartwatch; the student confessed. The penalty is the university's response to the AI-assisted cheating. The AI output reached the student only through the friend, so no relation describing the AI system's own action toward the student is recorded. The AI tool is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Konkuk University says a student got a zero and an F after a friend solved midterm questions with AI and relayed the answers to a smartwatch","summary":"In a midterm exam on 14 October 2026 in a major course of about 100 students at Konkuk University in Seoul, a student sent the questions to a friend through a camera attached to the chest; the friend solved them using AI and sent the answers to the student's smartwatch, according to the professor's notice to students as reported by JoongAng Ilbo on 21 October 2026. The professor became suspicious of a perfect score, asked the student to solve the same problems again, and the student could not and confessed. The university said the professor gave the student a zero on the exam and an F in the course under its regulations for cheating by writing answers using AI and a smartwatch, and the department decided to ban cameras and watches from the final exam onward. The AI tool is not named, and no consequence for the friend is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-10-14","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-21","aiSystem":"An AI tool a friend used to solve midterm exam questions that the student sent by hidden camera; the answers were relayed to the student's smartwatch. The tool is not named in the reports","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI problem-solving tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the university, the student was given a zero on the midterm and an F in the course after cheating with AI-solved answers relayed to a smartwatch.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One student, given a zero on the exam and an F in the course according to the university's statement. The student did not operate the AI tool (the friend did, per the professor's notice), so the student is counted among other people harmed. The friend is not counted because no consequence is reported.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25471463","primarySourceLabel":"JoongAng Ilbo, 21 October 2026: camera on clothes and AI used to cheat in a university midterm (Korean)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T02:57:51.454402+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T02:57:51.454402+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["academic-integrity","exam-cheating","smartwatch","grade-penalty","consequential-response","korea"]},{"id":"2026-purdue-computer-science-course-mass-ai-cheating-accusation-students-dropped-allegations-withdrawn","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'sent an email to more than 200 students in his CS 240 class last week, alleging he had caught them cheating on assignments with AI tools'; 'He included a form questioning AI use on each assignment, giving accused students a chance to admit or deny the allegations'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'sent an email to more than 200 students accusing them of using AI to cheat on their assignments, as reported by the Journal & Courier'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The professor of Purdue's CS 240 course emailed more than 200 students in the class alleging that he had caught them cheating on assignments with AI tools, with a form on which to admit or deny AI use on each assignment.","causal_attribution":"The professor's allegation, as reported by the newspaper; the AI use itself is not established."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Failure to respond will result in a grade of'; 'Failure to respond will also result in an unfavorable letter being sent to the dean of students along with further disciplinary action'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The email warned that failure to respond would result in an F for the course and an unfavourable letter to the dean of students along with further disciplinary action.","causal_attribution":"Quoted from the email by the Journal & Courier."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Sent on the deadline for dropping a class, students went into a frenzy, and more than half the class unenrolled'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'over half of the accused opted to drop the class'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The email was sent on the deadline for dropping a class, and more than half of the class unenrolled.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper connects the withdrawals to the email and its timing; Plagiarism Today restates the figure as over half of the accused."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'without telling us which ones we used AI on, his detection methods, his timing'; 'seems to have bypassed'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A student told the newspaper that the main objection was that the professor had not said which assignments were flagged or how they were detected, and the newspaper reports he seems to have bypassed the one-on-one meeting that Purdue's faculty guide describes as the first step.","causal_attribution":"An unnamed student's account and the newspaper's own reading of the faculty guide."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'it was announced that allegations of cheating and AI use thus far in the semester are dropped, and anyone can re-enroll in the course'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The allegations were dropped, and students were allowed to re-enroll in the course'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"At a class discussion called by the department, it was announced that the allegations of cheating and AI use so far in the semester were dropped and that anyone could re-enrol in the course.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the newspaper; Plagiarism Today relies on it."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'still use the AI detection tool going forward'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was only applied after all but two of the assignments had been graded'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The professor said he would keep using the AI detection tool, and no source read describes what the detection method was.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's report of the professor's statement; Plagiarism Today adds that the method was new and was applied after most assignments had been graded, without describing it."}],"effects":[{"label":"more than 200 students accused of AI cheating and warned of a failing grade and a letter to the dean","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"more than half of the class dropped the course at the deadline before the allegations were withdrawn","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/cheating-scandal-in-purdue-class-sparks-debate-over-ai-s-place-in-college/ar-AA21kWFG","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full through the MSN syndication of the Lafayette Journal & Courier article.","independence_group":"purdue-cs240-journal-courier-apr-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/22/cheating-allegations-lead-to-chaos-at-purdue-university/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full. A commentary that relies on the Journal & Courier and the Purdue Exponent for its facts, so it shares the Journal & Courier's independence group.","independence_group":"purdue-cs240-journal-courier-apr-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["What detection method or tool the professor used and how it decided which students to accuse.","How many of the accused students had in fact used AI.","How many students re-enrolled and whether any student was later penalised.","What the Purdue Exponent follow-up of 14 October 2026 reports; it could not be read."],"geography":{"basis":"The course and the accusation took place at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, as the Journal & Courier dateline and text state. The students' own countries are not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete institutional response to suspected AI use: a class-wide accusation of more than 200 students with a threat of failing grades at the drop deadline, after which more than half of the class withdrew before the allegations were dropped. The facts rest on the Journal & Courier's reporting.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the professor's response to suspected AI use: he emailed more than 200 students alleging they had cheated on programming assignments with AI tools and warned that non-response would bring an F and a letter to the dean, and more than half of the class dropped the course. The allegations were later dropped. No source describes the detection method or any AI output about the students, so the relation is recorded as unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Over half of a Purdue programming class dropped the course after the professor emailed 200-plus students alleging AI cheating; allegations later withdrawn","summary":"In April 2026 the professor teaching CS 240, a programming course at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, emailed more than 200 students in the class alleging that he had caught them cheating on assignments with AI tools, according to the Lafayette Journal & Courier. The email gave the students a form on which to admit or deny AI use on each assignment and warned that failure to respond would result in an F for the course and an unfavourable letter to the dean of students. It was sent on the deadline for dropping a class, and more than half of the class unenrolled. A student quoted by the newspaper said the main objection was that he had not said which assignments were flagged or how they were detected. After a weekend of attention on social media and a class discussion called by the department, it was announced that the allegations of cheating and AI use so far in the semester were dropped and that anyone could re-enrol. The professor said he would keep using his AI detection tool. No source describes what that detection method was, and how many of the accused had used AI is not known.","incidentDate":"2026-04-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-21","aiSystem":"No AI system is identified. The professor alleged that students used AI tools on programming assignments; the detection method he relied on is not described in any source read","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI coding tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"More than 200 students were accused of AI cheating and warned of a failing grade and a dean's letter at the drop deadline, and more than half of the class dropped the course before the allegations were withdrawn (Journal & Courier).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":200,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"More than 200 students received the accusation email (Journal & Courier; Plagiarism Today), so 200 is a documented minimum. They are counted under other people harmed because their AI use is alleged and unestablished.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/cheating-scandal-in-purdue-class-sparks-debate-over-ai-s-place-in-college/ar-AA21kWFG","primarySourceLabel":"Lafayette Journal & Courier (via MSN), 21 April 2026: Cheating scandal in Purdue class sparks debate over AI's place in college","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-15T03:06:28.328183+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T03:06:28.328183+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-use-accusation","academic-integrity","education","computer-science","allegations-withdrawn","ai-involvement-suspected"]}]}