Life Admin & Home
Handle meal planning, daily briefs, errands and household tasks
Commenters use agents for weekly meal planning, daily briefs, errand tracking, email sorting, home repair load and household task organization.
Other or custom
Have agents complete online coursework for students
Students reportedly direct AI agents to log into Canvas and Blackboard to take quizzes, watch lectures, write papers and post in discussions.
Time saved
Not reported
Setup time
Not reported
Running cost
Not reported
Cost range
Not reported
Use case overview
Students reportedly direct AI agents to log into Canvas and Blackboard to take quizzes, watch lectures, write papers and post in discussions.
Reported experience
What they did
Per Futurism's summary of a New York Times report, students tell an AI agent to log into Canvas or Blackboard as them. The agent runs in the background. It completes quizzes, watches lecture videos, writes papers, and posts in discussions as the student, who does something else meanwhile.
How it went
The NYT found ChatGPT, Gemini and Grammarly would not refuse to write a whole paper. None of the AI companies stop agents from logging into these platforms. Professors say they cannot stop it. The article gives no completion or grade figures.
Worth knowing
This is academic cheating. Professors are responding with in-person assessment, device bans, and ending honor-code exams, so it carries real misconduct risk.
Example prompts
I have a [course name] course on [Canvas or Blackboard] and I want to see how my course materials could be better organized. Using [API token or exported course files], review the modules and list inconsistent names, missing due dates, and broken pages. You're done when you give me a summary table of suggested fixes; do not change or delete anything without showing me the exact changes and getting my approval first.
Related use cases
Life Admin & Home
Track home maintenance from receipts and inspection reports
An agent classifies receipts and inspection reports, proposes maintenance tasks, and drafts vendor messages for a property owner.
Other or custom
Life Admin & Home
Spot recurring meetings, emails and bills and offer to prep them
An assistant on top of Gmail and Calendar detects recurring meetings, repeated email types and bills, then asks whether to prep or schedule them.
Other or custom