On April 1, College Board announced that it will be implementing a new AP course called AP Cheating and AI Solutions for the 2025-2026 school year. This course will be introduced to all high schools across the United States. The creation of this course comes as a response to the increased usage of AI models like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot among high school students nationwide.
In an official statement, College Board reported data gathered from a nationwide survey revealing thirty-three percent of students in the U.S. regularly utilize some form of AI on assignments, quizzes and tests. Recognizing this growing trend, College Board decided to address this need of proper AI use by providing students with the necessary resources to “cheat at the college level,” allowing for the proper and complete integration of AI.
The AP Cheating and AI Solutions course curriculum consists of six units that aim to immerse students in the experience of utilizing AI. To test the students over the knowledge that they have learned, the course is paired with an end of year AP exam that consists of 60 multiple choice questions and four free response questions. College Board emphasizes in the course overview that the curriculum is designed to “allow for students to change their habits” with the ultimate goal of achieving “academic stability” by teaching them how to further adapt to the growing tech-filled environment around them.
The six units that comprise the course are: Introductory to AI Tools, Navigation of AI Tools, Strategical Uses of AI Tools, Ethics of AI Tools, AI-Powered Test, Quiz Taking Practices and Applications of AI in the Future. While the course may appear as a mark of progress to an overwhelming majority of students, various high school seniors across the US express their anger with College Board for not having access to this resource during their time in high school. Many blame College Board for the negative impact AP courses have had on their GPA with them saying it led for their academic career to go down the drain.
At a protest against this new AP course, Lo Geepiay, a graduating CVHS senior, shared her thoughts on the implementation of the course.
“It would have been nice to have a class teach me how to cheat — I mean, how to accurately use AI in my assignments instead of getting written up multiple times by the school dean,” Geepiay expressed. “Why should others get away with using AI freely and passing while I failed my classes?”
However, incoming freshmen and current students at CVHS believe that they’ll reap the benefits that previous classes missed out on. Students like Overton Chevra, an incoming freshman, believes that his age group will be most impacted by this course.
“I do believe that this is a very useful course that will allow students like me to succeed, unlike the students who came before me,” Chevra boasted at the same protest. “Students having resources that aren’t just restricted to paper definitely aids in the normalization of technology in these changing times.”
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