An agentic AI demo that created a provocative fake website and a flurry of classroom-ready tools that can autonomously complete tasks have put higher education on notice. A recent staged ‘Einstein’ project and a new app promising to do students’ work triggered debates about academic integrity, the limits of automated agents, and the need for new assessment models. What happened: An AI founder released an agentic tool that rapidly escalated debates about whether agents can be safely deployed in learning environments. Who’s involved: app founders, faculty critics, and campus instructional designers. Why it matters: Agentic systems blur the line between assistant and actor; institutions must rapidly harden guardrails, update integrity policies, and train faculty to spot agent outputs.