{"id":216185,"date":"2026-05-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/college-student-are-booing-commencement-speakers-mentioning-ai-but-still-use-it-to-cheat-on-exams\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:15:22","slug":"college-student-are-booing-commencement-speakers-mentioning-ai-but-still-use-it-to-cheat-on-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/college-student-are-booing-commencement-speakers-mentioning-ai-but-still-use-it-to-cheat-on-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"College student are booing commencement speakers mentioning AI, but still use it to cheat on exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/19\/college-students-booing-commencement-speakers-ai-cheating-cognitive-dissonance\/\">College student are booing commencement speakers mentioning AI, but still use it to cheat on exams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/19\/college-students-booing-commencement-speakers-ai-cheating-cognitive-dissonance\/\">https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/19\/college-students-booing-commencement-speakers-ai-cheating-cognitive-dissonance\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 04:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"fortune.com\">fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an unordered list encapsulating 5 key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Mixed Attitudes Toward AI<\/strong>: College students today express clear disapproval of AI during commencement speeches but rapidly adopt AI tools for their coursework. This paradoxical relationship reflects underlying fears and practical necessities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>High AI Tool Usage<\/strong>: A significant number of U.S. college students, approximately 77% according to the Lumina Foundation-Gallup study, use AI tools on a weekly basis, driven by both necessity and peer influence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Cheating and AI<\/strong>: Some educators report students using AI to cheat on exams, a trend attributed to the widespread availability of AI tools and the students&#8217; perceived need to keep pace with peers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Job Market Concerns<\/strong>: Recent graduates are apprehensive about AI potentially displacing many jobs; yet, the technology&#8217;s ubiquity in both education and the labor market rationalizes their AI use, even when it involves cheating.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Cognitive Dissonance and Educational Responsibility<\/strong>: Experts highlight a form of cognitive dissonance where students feel AI could hinder their learning but still use it to avoid falling behind, blaming educational institutions for not adequately preparing students for a future shaped by AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College student are booing commencement speakers mentioning AI, but still use it to cheat on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2217689847-e1779145635172.jpg?resize=1200,600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216185"}],"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=216185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216187,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216185\/revisions\/216187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}