Ohio State academic report reveals spike in AI cheating: Experts speak on the effect it has on students

The increase in AI cheating cases has increased from four in 2023-24 to over 800 in 2025-26. Credit: Audrey Coleman | Campus Editor Ohio State wants students to add AI fluency to their list of skills before they graduate. While that initiative is underway, more students than ever are using artificial intelligence to cheat. In 2023, the number of cheating cases related to unauthorized AI use was four. Now, that same category has spiked to 816. The increase is revealed in the Committee on Academic Misconduct’s — or COAM’s — report for the 2025-2026 academic year. Though the committee added AI misuse as a new category of cheating in 2023, it now makes up 19 percent of total COAM cases — nearly one out of every five. The AI cases come at a time when cheating in general also appears on the rise. There has been an upward trend in falsification, fabrication and dishonesty, increasing from 224 cases in the 2023- 2024 school year to 932 last school year.

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