UK Higher Education Regulator Warns AI Poses Risk to Assessments

The Office for Students (OfS) reported that a significant proportion of university assessments are unsupervised and can be completed to a high standard using artificial intelligence in minutes. The regulator noted that this poses a significant risk to the credibility of higher education because the AI use is frequently undetectable. To combat this, the OfS suggested that closed-book and practical exams are the most effective forms of assessment, while Universities UK stated that many institutions are actively making changes to be AI-proof.