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A top scorer in South Korea’s tax-accountant qualification exams has admitted using generative AI to cheat, days before the country’s high-stakes college entrance exam. The case puts AI-enabled cheating squarely on exam organisers’ agenda, rather than in the hypothetical column.
Why it mattersThe Guardian reports that the candidate used a microcamera to photograph questions, sent them to an AI tool and checked the answers on a smartphone. He scored 397.5 out of 400 in the first round. Seoul police confirmed they had received a written confession through his lawyer. South Korea’s presidential office said it was preparing countermeasures ahead of Thursday’s college entrance exam. The confession concerns a separate qualification test, but the timing gives officials little room to treat the incident as someone else’s marking problem.
Discuss: Should exam organisers respond with tighter controls on devices, or redesign high-stakes tests so AI-assisted cheating is harder to pull off?
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