‘I don't want my education to be compromised’: College student reports lab partner to professor for using AI for group experiment proposal, because she fears cheating would jeopardize the whole group's grade and academic report

It's not like there's a famous saying that goes, "college degrees come and go, but lab partners are forever." So was it really so wrong of this student to put her education first, even if that means making her the ultimate tittle-tattle? It's sort of common decency to keep things on the hush-hush when it comes to a fellow student's cheating, a not my paper, not my problem kind of mindset.

There's definitely a time and a place for artificial intelligence within colleges, with the granted permission of course. However, if a professor has not explicitly asked you to use it, and you do so in a group project, it has the potential to make your group members slightly uncomfortable, as being caught will not only affect your grade but have a domino effect on theirs. So when this student discovered her group member used AI without permission, she panicked. For the sake of honesty and her grades, she decided to inform the professor…With this decision came both a release of anxiety and equal amounts of guilt. Was this really the best adult way to deal with an 'incompetent' group member?

During a generation where AI can write your essay, drive you to college, and basically make your bed for you. Cheating has become so accessible, and AI has allowed it to happen. However, the debate remains: Is AI just a crippling weapon to defend laziness or a tool for utilizing a whole new, efficient way of thinking?
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AITAH for telling the professor that my lab partner was using AI?

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