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GenAI Agent Imposters: A Cautionary Tale: A Podcast

18 de abril de 2026 by Neil Andersen

Abstract

A conversation exploring a GenAI agent impersonating a student reveals a provocative question for education: what happens when participation—and learning itself—can be fully automated?

Neil Andersen interviews Gina Marcello – Link to Podcast

Keywords

Podcasts, Artificial Intelligence, Generative Artificial Intelligence


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?

Listen to the Podcast here

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  • Neil Andersen

    Neil Andersen, M. Ed., @mediasee, is president of The Association for Media Literacy (Ontario). He has taught primary to post-graduate media studies for over 30 years, including Media Studies Additional Qualifications courses for Mount Saint Vincent University, York University, the University of Toronto, the Toronto District School Board and The Association for Media Literacy.  He has given keynotes and workshops across Canada, in the US, Japan, India, China, Australia, England and Sweden.

    He has made movies and videos, authored student textbooks, journal articles, teacher resource books, over 200 study guides, and designed T-shirts, posters, interactive CDs, websites, online courses and programs. He has co-hosted Mediacy, a weekly media literacy podcast on Voice Ed Radio (https://voiced.ca/project/mediacy/) and presented for the Ontario Teachers’ Federation.

    His awards include the Jesse McCanse Award (IC4ML) and The Magic Lantern Award (The Association for Media and Technology in Education).

    For more information: https://aml.ca/team/neil-anderson/

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