A University of Notre Dame freshman, Caden Chuang, triggered a disciplinary scramble after pitching an AI agent he says is for productivity rather than cheating. According to Notre Dame’s student newspaper, he emailed students about a tool that connects to Canvas, analyzes course materials, and generates study guides and draft work; the university deleted the email and disabled his account after rapid sign-ups. Chuang later claimed he “might have just been expelled,” and that the university is investigating him for creating an AI cheating tool, which he disputes. The episode is being treated as part of a broader pattern of student-built AI systems forcing rapid policy and enforcement responses across campuses. The incident highlights a growing integrity boundary challenge for institutions: tools can be positioned as coaching, but they may still reproduce graded outputs in ways that undermine assessment expectations.