A recent discussion with first-year college students revealed that most admitted to cheating in high school, a pattern the author has observed repeatedly. The article emphasizes that artificial intelligence did not create this problem, which predates AI and runs deeper. Citing educational psychology scholar Eric Anderman, the article notes that data from one large national study indicated "51% of high school students admit that they have cheated during a test." Other research from 2020 found that "64% of 70,000 high school students across the country admitted to cheating on a test, and 58% admitted to plagiarism," while approximately "95% of high school students" said they "participated in some form of cheating." In one Pennsylvania high school, "90 of the 100 respondents" to a 2018 survey "admitted to cheating on some form of schoolwork at least once." Students may cheat due to feeling unprepared, pressure for good grades, or using "techniques of neutralization" to justify wrongdoing. A 2020 study of "840 undergraduate college students found that 32% of them had cheated in some way on an exam."