After Detection: Managing Awkward Conversations with Students about GenAI Misuse

After Detection: Managing Awkward Conversations with Students about GenAI Misuse

There are almost as many artificial intelligence detectors as there are generative artificial intelligence products (GenAI). While AI detection companies claim they help teachers protect academic integrity in education, they are more likely to support a culture of surveillance pedagogy. Drawing on bell hooks' engaged pedagogy, Dr. Antonio Byrd discusses how AI detectors, if used at all, become tools for conversation starters not final conclusions on students' integrity. By the end of the presentation, attendees will leave with a goodie bag of instructional strategies that create student buy-in into learning and help reframe the uses of GenAI in writing assignments. 

Antonio Byrd (he/they) teaches courses in Black literacies, professional and technical communication, multimodal writing, and composition pedagogy. His research focuses on how the legacies of using literacy for liberation carry forward into present day Black digital literacies and media features. Antonio serves as co-chair for MLA Task Force on Generative AI Initiatives Standing and is a member of the CCCC Special Committee on GenAI.  His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Literacy in Composition Studies, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Writer: Craft and Context.  In 2025, Dr. Byrd published his first book manuscript, Black Tech Ecosystems: How Black Adult Learners Use Computer Code Bootcamps for Liberation with The WAC Clearinghouse.

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