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Convergent assessment cannot be policed: a residual-entropy bound on authorship attribution and its consequences for integrity in quantitative disciplines

2026-08-04

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Academic integrity policy for generative artificial intelligence has been built almost entirely on the essay. Detection tools, process-evidence requirements and assessment-security guidance all assume an extended prose artefact, then apply unchanged to multiple-choice items, numerical problems and short answers. We show this generalisation is unsound, and that the failure is structural...

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Literature Corpus work: 32111787-0004-5c47-86bf-b3d55a21c7ce
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10513554/v1

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