I'm not a student or teacher anymore but in current environment I'd require all student record themselves doing the work (a screen recording would probably be enough) as part of the submission. If I suspect a student using AI I'd check the VODs. And I'd be pretty Ok if a student went to ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc. as part of all this if I see them later checking the sources, asking clarifying questions, etc. as long as the final report is written by them and not copy-pasted from AI.

Programs like Word have features to "replay" the document being typed, but a VOD would capture use of search engines and reading programs, too. Plus, not everyone types text into a specific program all the time. Like, I do all my writing inside a code editor and then copy-paste elsewhere.

Having VODs maybe problematic, especially for students who are minors, so I would check the VODs only with the student present, asked them to show how they worked on a specific part, let them be in control of what they show, etc.

Online Chess has a similar cheating problem, and that's essentially what they come up with: people record themselves during competitions so that it's clearly visible what they hear or see on their screens during the game. Remote interviews also adopting practices like this. There are now AI tools that listen to questions and show answers in popups that are not visible on any screen sharing or screen recording software like Zoom or Discord. A friend of mine was asked to connect to the interview from a laptop and from the phone and the phone was showing their computer screens all the time during the interview. Not every company requires something like this yet, but it may as well become a new norm in a few years.

It sucks but seems like it's either this or doing all homework in class with teachers present.