Universities are policing AI cheating when they should be teaching students to work with it

There is a real cost to running a university sector that spends its energy on plagiarism detection software instead of rethinking what a degree is supposed to prove. The proposal to lean harder on oral exams and messy real world projects is a tacit admission that take home essays are already a dead format, whether or not anyone officially cheats. The interesting tension is that the same critical thinking skills this study wants to protect are exactly the skills that atrophy fastest when a model can produce a plausible first draft in seconds.