Framing AI cheating as a detection failure is the institutional move that lets business schools avoid the harder admission: their assignments were exploitable because they were built for a world where producing text was itself evidence of learning. The FT investigation into AI-assisted cheating in online MBA programs documents what schools already knew privately — that the problem is widespread and that detection tools are not closing the gap. But what the investigation surfaces, without quite stating, is that the volume of successful AI submissions proves the assignments were never…