A law student from the OP Jindal Global University in Sonipat, Haryana has filed a case this week against his university challenging their decision of failing him on allegations of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in an assignment. The case has been filed in Punjab-Haryana High Court last week,

Kaustubh Shakkarwar, who is a practicing lawyer himself, is pursuing his masters in Law (LLM) Intellectual Property and Technology Laws from the university, was failed on an allegation that his assignment answer sheets were “AI-generated.”

This raises serious concerns about the new challenges that universities and colleges are facing in the light of AI proliferation amongst students, as was found during the first report of a three part series on AI and Education by NDTV AI. You can read that story here.

According to an Indian Express report, Shakkarwar punishment was meted out by the university’s Unfair Means committee after finding out that his response in a first term exam were 88 percent AI-generated. The student has challenged the decision in court, challenging that the use of AI does not constitute plagiarism, as no such guideline was explicitly stated by the university.

Speaking at the “UN Summit of the Future” on Saturday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that he wants to close the “AI Divide” and pledged 120 million USD for AI training and education around the world, according to a blog on Google.

Pichai addressed the United Nations General assembly (UNGA) at the very first “UN Summit of the Future,” delivering the keynote speech. Pichai announced “Global AI Opportunity Fund” at the event and said that the AI education will be done in local languages, in partnerships with nonprofits and NGOs.

Pichai expressed his confidence in AI being the most transformative technology yet, and shared his personal experience as to how technology changed his life, being born and brought up in Chennai. He mentioned four ways through which AI technology has potential for transformative change: access to information in one’s own language, AI driven scientific discoveries, AI’s climate-related disaster management systems, and AI’s contribution to the world economy.

However, Pichai also cautioned regarding AI’s potential for harm as well. He expressed concerns of accuracy, biasness as well as misapplication of AI like in case of deep fakes. Pichai also called for regulations that do not give into protectionist impulses, enabling wider reach of AI technologies for equal opportunity.