# GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale

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Podcast: [Mediacy with Carol Arcus & Neil Andersen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mediacy-with-carol-arcus-neil-andersen-545420)
Published: 2026-02-11T21:36:10+00:00
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## Resource

You are teaching an asynchronous online course. One of thousands such courses. You discover that one student has engaged a GenAI agent imposter to take the course in their place. The GenAI imposter reads and responds to the course readings; it takes the quizzes; it completes and submits the culminating project. Algorithmically, without any participation from the student. What might this mean for the student? ...for you? ...for your institution?

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