In online posts, students use these so-called “agentic browsers” to take over academic platforms like Canvas and Coursera and complete quizzes assigned to them. The CEO of Perplexity, the creator of the agentic browser Comet, even responded to a student displaying how they used the tool to complete a quiz, saying, “Absolutely don’t do this.”
These browsers interact with websites at the user’s request to complete tasks like shopping, web navigation and form submission. They can even complete schoolwork without a student’s hands needing to touch the keyboard.
Carter Schwalb, a senior business analytics major at Bradley University, heads the school’s AI club. He said he’s experimented with agentic browsers for planning trips and apartment searching as well as summarizing information found on various websites. However, he’s talked to many professors at his university who report that students are submitting AI-generated responses for their assignments.
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