A string of high‑profile AI misuses and marketing stunts has university leaders revisiting vendor risk, classroom design and student supports. A provocative agentic AI prototype that generated an inflammatory fake website prompted debate about the technology’s capacity to disrupt teaching, assessment and campus norms. At the same time, academic communities are calling out commercial products that repurpose faculty names or scholarship for AI feedback without clear consent. Reports of platforms using scholars’ published work to label AI reviewers have prompted complaints from academics about attribution, consent and reputation risk. Procurement, legal and academic‑affairs teams must tighten vendor due diligence, require data‑use disclosures, and update academic‑integrity policies to distinguish acceptable AI assistance from unauthorized creation or misattribution.