By Harriet Alexander,Sally Rawsthorne
Publication Date: 2026-06-03 01:54:00
Updated ,published for the first time
A senior Western Sydney University academic has admitted using artificial intelligence to write an opinion article The Sydney Morning Herald which defended the use of AI in universities.
Professor Cath Ellis, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Quality and Integrity, argued in her article that prospective students should trust the higher education system despite fears that the system will be downgraded by reliance on AI.
She submitted it in response to an earlier article by Macquarie University’s Kylie Moore-Gilbert, which claimed that universities were committing “widespread industry fraud” by taking money from students and awarding them degrees they had not earned because they had outsourced their thinking about AI.
But WSU admitted in response to inquiries…