CPAEF 2026 Educators’ and Academics’ Symposium (Virtual)

Session 1: 9:10 – 10:55AM

Speaker: Alym Amlani CPA, CA

ChatGPT Ate My Homework: Teaching in the Age of “MePT”

As you read this description, ask yourself: did a human write it, or did an AI?

In the age of MePT, where student work is increasingly shaped by human-AI collaboration, polished output is no longer reliable evidence of learning. This session offers practical strategies to protect academic integrity without turning instructors into investigators.

Participants will use the 3Ds framework, Dialog, Declare, Design, to set clear, enforceable expectations for ethical AI use, including a realistic disclosure practice they can apply in their own classrooms. The session then introduces the 3Ms, Misunderstanding, Misuse, and Misconduct, as a practical way to respond to suspected breaches fairly and proportionately, using intent and evidence rather than suspicion alone.

From there, the session shifts from the losing arms race of AI-proofing to the more useful work of AI-alignment, where assessments are designed to make learning visible through process, judgment, and reflection. Through mini-cases, participants will work through genuine grey areas and examine why student confusion about AI expectations is often a reasonable response to faculty inconsistency.

Attendees will leave with syllabus-ready language, a response playbook, and practical redesign strategies they can implement immediately.

To the original question: one AI detector says a human wrote this. Another says it was AI. If this were your student’s submission, what would you do?

Bio:

Alym Amlani CPA, CA, is the lead author of ChatGPT Ate My Homework, a widely praised guide for educators grappling with the transformative impact of generative AI on teaching, assessment, and learning. Twice recognized as a "Best of the Teaching Professor Conference" presenter, he offers practical, classroom-tested approaches to redesigning courses and evaluations that faculty can apply immediately.

Alym teaches accounting and business subjects at the UBC Sauder School of Business and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He is known for his incisive analysis and for developing frameworks faculty can put to immediate use, including the 3Ds (dialog, declare, design) for proactive AI disclosure and the 3Ms (misunderstanding, misuse, misconduct) for reviewing academic integrity issues. Alym's clear position is that current practice in higher education must prioritize teaching responsible use of AI as an essential professional tool; assessment must emphasize process over product. His work helps faculty design assessments that produce defensible evidence of learning while remaining meaningful and relevant for students.