Yes, it was quite shocking when my nephew told me proudly how he and his friends were using AI to do at least some, if not all, of their writing. That might be why he suddenly had a lot more work to get done recently...

Hand-written essays...ugh... but fair enough. Unless the faculty could get hold of enough laptops to sit them at with internet access disabled.

And, well, most of the world's leaders have reached their position of power NOT through merit. Agreed that AI could just make that worse.