The University of Minnesota expelled a third-year health economics Ph.D. student in November after faculty accused him of using artificial intelligence on an exam. He denies their claims and, this month, filed a lawsuit accusing the U of M of violating his due process. He has also filed a defamation suit against one of his professors. In a federal lawsuit, Haishan Yang, 33, alleges a student conduct review panel unjustly found him guilty of academic dishonesty through a process riddled with “procedural flaws, reliance on altered evidence, and denial of adequate notice and opportunity to respond.” The review was prompted by accusations that Yang used a large language model like ChatGPT on a written preliminary exam, which doctoral students must pass to start their dissertation.
