{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T06:58:50.178Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"handling-time","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":1},"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":"2025-bergen-university-student-reported-over-suspected-ai-use-exclusion-struck-on-appeal-after-15-months","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Våren 2025 leverte «Anna» en mappeeksamen ved Universitetet i Bergen.'; 'I juni fikk jeg e-posten om at karakteren min ble holdt tilbake på grunn av mistanke om fusk. Det var langt over sensurfristen.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In spring 2025 the student submitted a portfolio exam at the University of Bergen, and in June, after the grading deadline, she was told by email that her grade was withheld on suspicion of cheating.","causal_attribution":"The student's account to Studvest; the newspaper does not quote the email."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I tillegg var det flere feil ved kildehenvisningene, noe som var grunnen til at emneansvarlig mistenkte KI-bruk og meldte studenten inn til Nemnd for studentsaker ved UiB.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Errors in the exam's source references were the reason the course coordinator suspected AI use and reported the student to the university's board for student cases.","causal_attribution":"Studvest's account of the reason for the report; the course coordinator is not quoted and no detection tool is named."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Oi, jeg har levert feil dokument. Jeg hadde levert det dokumentet jeg kladdet i.'; 'la de vekt på at innleveringen var en ren feil, og at kildefeilene skyldtes at hun med et uhell hadde levert en uferdig kladd.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student says she had submitted the wrong document, an unfinished draft containing a to-do list and notes to herself, and her lawyer told the university the source errors came from that draft.","causal_attribution":"The student's and her lawyer's explanation; it is contrary evidence to the AI suspicion and is not itself established."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I mars 2026, ni måneder etter varselet, kom Nemnd for studentsaker hos UiB sin avgjørelse: Oppgaven ble annullert, og «Anna» ble utestengt fra UiB i to semestre.'; 'i et møte 29. mai 2026 vurderte UiB at vedtaket skulle opprettholdes.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In March 2026 the board annulled the exam and excluded the student from the university for two semesters, and the university upheld the decision at a meeting on 29 May 2026.","causal_attribution":"Decisions as reported by Studvest; the decision documents were not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Leveringen av feil fil kvalifiserte til å kutte utestengelsen fra to semestre til ett.'; 'Utestengelsen strykes helt på grunn av UiBs lange saksbehandlingstid.'; 'tar Felles klagenemds vurdering til etterretning'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On appeal, Felles klagenemnd found that submitting the wrong file justified cutting the exclusion from two semesters to one and struck the exclusion entirely because of the university's long handling time; the university's pro-rector said it takes note of that assessment.","causal_attribution":"The appeals board's findings as summarised by Studvest; the decision itself was not inspected and its date is not given."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Jeg kjente mye på en skamfølelse over at jeg er en av de som jukser.'; 'Det var vanskelig å fokusere på studiet, og det gikk utover karakterene.'; 'Straffen for meg har vært de 15 månedene med uvisshet.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student describes shame and 15 months of uncertainty that made it hard to concentrate on her studies and hurt her grades.","causal_attribution":"The student's own account of the effect of the proceedings."}],"effects":[{"label":"grade withheld, exam annulled and two-semester exclusion after a report of suspected AI use, exclusion later struck on appeal","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"shame and 15 months of uncertainty that hurt concentration and grades","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.studvest.no/nyhet/matte-vente-i-15-maneder-pa-fuskesak-na-slipper-anna-utestengelse/179674","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"no","translation_note":"Read in full in the original Norwegian (HTML body and stripped text). The passages are quoted in Norwegian; the English renderings in the record are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"studvest-uib-cheating-case-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["Whether the student used AI in any part of the exam.","The course, the exact errors in the references and whether any AI-detection tool was used.","The date of the appeals board decision and whether the exam annulment was changed."],"geography":{"basis":"The exam, the report and the decisions took place at the University of Bergen and in the Norwegian national appeals board, as Studvest states. The student's own country is not stated, and no court was involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["NO"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete institutional response to suspected AI use: a reported suspicion of AI use led to a withheld grade, an annulled exam and a two-semester exclusion that the national appeals board struck after 15 months. The facts rest on one student newspaper's reporting of the student's and her lawyer's account and the decisions.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the university's response to suspected AI use: Studvest reports that errors in the exam's source references were the reason the course coordinator suspected AI use and reported the student, after which her grade was withheld, the exam annulled and an exclusion imposed until the national appeals board struck it. No AI output about the student and no detection tool is described, and she attributes the errors to submitting the wrong file, so the relation is recorded as unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"University of Bergen student reported over suspected AI use after source errors has exclusion struck on appeal after 15 months, student newspaper reports","summary":"A student at the University of Bergen (UiB), whom the student newspaper Studvest calls \"Anna\", submitted a portfolio exam in spring 2025. In June 2025, after the grading deadline, she was told her grade was withheld on suspicion of cheating. According to Studvest, several errors in the source references were why the course coordinator suspected use of AI and reported her to UiB's board for student cases. She says she had by mistake submitted an unfinished draft with a to-do list and notes to herself, and her lawyer told UiB the source errors came from that draft. In March 2026 the board annulled the exam and excluded her from UiB for two semesters, and UiB upheld the decision on 29 May 2026. On her appeal, the national appeals board for cheating cases (Felles klagenemnd) found that the wrong-file submission justified cutting the exclusion to one semester and struck the exclusion entirely because of UiB's long handling time. She describes shame and 15 months of uncertainty that made it hard to concentrate and hurt her grades. Whether she used AI is not established in the account; UiB says it does not comment on individual cases.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-12","aiSystem":"No AI system is identified. The course coordinator suspected AI use because of errors in the exam's source references, according to Studvest; no detection tool and no AI output is described, and the student attributes the errors to submitting the wrong file","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI writing tool (suspected)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Studvest, the student's grade was withheld from June 2025 and the university annulled her exam and excluded her for two semesters in March 2026 after a report of suspected AI use; she describes shame and 15 months of uncertainty that hurt her concentration and grades, until the national appeals board struck the exclusion.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the student Studvest calls \"Anna\". Whether she used AI is not established, so she is counted outside own use.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"NO","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.studvest.no/nyhet/matte-vente-i-15-maneder-pa-fuskesak-na-slipper-anna-utestengelse/179674","primarySourceLabel":"Studvest, 12 October 2026: Waited 15 months for a cheating case, now \"Anna\" avoids exclusion","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:12:07.076932+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:12:07.076932+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["academic-integrity","suspected-ai-use","exclusion-struck-on-appeal","university","norway","handling-time"]}]}