My Shingetsu News Agency Visible Minorities column 72: “Confronting AI in Higher Education” (Jan 27, 2026), with decent primary source data on the harm being done to universities — by enabling students in the Social Sciences to cheat.

Excerpt: I teach Political Science, and have an express zero-tolerance policy towards the use of AI in students’ submitted assignments. Two semesters ago, my policy was to give zeros on assignments in the first instance and Fs in the course for repeat offenders. But last semester, this became untenable as AI reached the event horizon. AI went from something students were still discovering to being…