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Community college students

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 10384 Report
Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

2025-04-22

Between 2021 and 2025, California community colleges faced a surge in fraudulent applications—now estimated at 34% of all submissions. Reports indicate that scammers used generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, to produce identity-verifying responses that enabled them to impersonate students and obtain financial aid. The fraud allegedly resulted in over $13 million in losses over the past year alone, straining administrative and instructional systems and displacing legitimate applicants.

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Incident 15031 Report
Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

2026-05-15

Glendale Community College in Arizona reportedly used an AI-powered name-reading system during its May 2026 commencement ceremony. The system allegedly mishandled the graduate roll call, leaving some students without the expected public announcement of their names as they crossed the stage and prompting frustration from attendees. The college later apologized and reportedly allowed affected graduates to walk again with a human announcer.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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Scammers targeting California community colleges

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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Generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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U.S. taxpayers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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Financial aid recipients

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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California community colleges

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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California community college students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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California community college faculty

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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Students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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Educational communities

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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Various generative AI tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1038
    4 Reports

    Scammers Reportedly Use AI Tools to Impersonate Students and Obtain Federal Aid

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Glendale Community College

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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Community colleges

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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Institutions of higher education

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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AI name-reading system developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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Glendale Community College students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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Glendale Community College community

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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AI name-reading systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1503
    1 Report

    Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

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