{"id":187867,"date":"2026-02-16T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/kpmg-partner-fined-for-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat-in-ai-training-test-kpmg\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:25:10","slug":"kpmg-partner-fined-for-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat-in-ai-training-test-kpmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/kpmg-partner-fined-for-using-artificial-intelligence-to-cheat-in-ai-training-test-kpmg\/","title":{"rendered":"KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test | KPMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/16\/kpmg-partner-fined-artificial-intelligence-ai-training-test\">KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test | KPMG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/16\/kpmg-partner-fined-artificial-intelligence-ai-training-test\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/16\/kpmg-partner-fined-artificial-intelligence-ai-training-test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 09:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A KPMG partner in Australia was fined A$10,000 for using AI to cheat on an internal training course.<\/li>\n<li>Over two dozen KPMG Australia staff have been caught cheating on internal exams using AI since July, raising concerns about AI-facilitated cheating in accountancy firms.<\/li>\n<li>KPMG Australia used its own AI detection tools to uncover these instances, as reported by the Australian Finance Review.<\/li>\n<li>Similar cheating scandals have plagued big four accountancy firms, including a heavy fine of A$615,000 to KPMG Australia in 2021 for widespread misconduct involving improper test answer-sharing.<\/li>\n<li>The ACCA in the UK has taken measures such as requiring in-person exams to combat AI cheating, acknowledging that AI adoption has outpaced existing safeguards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test | KPMG&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f63d5f7c5919e31dca5f8c1761b183ad5175e3c4\/506_0_4992_3995\/master\/4992.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=b55a5fddf33cc88e1fc076c55be2028b","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-187867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187869,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187867\/revisions\/187869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}