Using AI for detecting cheating is a bad idea. In fact, using AI for anything to estimate, judge, replicate, imitate, or otherwise evaluate human behavior is a bad idea. Machines are not capable of understanding the nuances of the human experience no matter how much we try to explain it to them. Furthermore, machines can not be interrogated or reasoned with : they see things only in numbers and equations, facts and logic when many things within our world are illogical and incapable of being explained in such cut-and-dry, black-and-white duality. The only machine capable of adequately and fairly judging the actions of man is man himself.
Programmers seem to me to be slowly becoming the mad scientists of today. Instead of lab coats and bubbling elixirs they are accompanied by turtle-necks and mechanical keyboards. They hurl themselves and their work forward in the name of "scientific progress" without any regard for the possible consequences of these actions. Too few people have understood the metaphor of Frankenstein. Unfortunately for us this lack of understanding may very well lead to the further enslavement of man to his technology.
I believe this is a result of the doctrinal shift much of society has taken with regard to its spiritual beliefs. It's a cruel irony where the descendant of reason and the Age of Enlightenment will lead us right back to where we started : a fanatical adherence to a dogma without any understanding of it and the lionization of its clergy as infallible arbiters of truth. History is doomed to repeat itself and scientism is merely another expression of man's hubris.
It is and has been human nature for us to hurl ourselves at the newest and most mis-understood technologies as they rise up. Look at all the wild stuff that took place during the dawn of nuclear, electricity, steam even and the industrial revolution. I agree that many people, companies, and organizations dive too quickly into AI without studying or trying to outline/understand the potential dangerous limits of creating artificial intelligence.
I myself find it to be worrying that we have seemingly embraced AI so rapidly, especially to the layman, with little disregard to either have checks on it or else. (ChatGPT will happily spew intelligent sounding baloney that unless you know the subject will look right. )
That said, if you are going to blame it on society moving away from a theological foundation then one only needs to look at how more and less secular countries compare in terms of development, quality of life, etc. Europe vs middle east for example.
Humans have and always will be reckless, to blame it on a divergence from religious, if that is what you are doing is... silly. Yes religion has played a founding role in modern societies for centuries, millennia even. Yet, in my opinion, - the net positive functions of religion in forming and maintaining social circles, an orderly society with a quasi-police function has diminished, if not become more irrelevant. Our societies become more connected, observant, and those functions (social circle formation, social policing/law and order) become handled by different, more modern approaches and methods today.
Source: Wrote a paper about ethics, bioethical theory and religion this past year and it covered this.
but more on topic point: In my uneducated opinion on AI though, I think AI will be useful as a tool to augment and detect but must not be used as an absolute indicator. think of a warning that goes " suspicious activity detected, human review necessary" vs "confirmed hacker, banned." approach.
