Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence: AI1 Meet AI2.

Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence walk into a bar off the beaten path in Mashville.

Bartender asks: "What can I get for you two?"

Algor smirks: “I'll have ein stein of your world famous binary brew.”

Barkeep: “Mashville’s finest. You, sir?”

Acadec scoffs: "Make mine a stiff truth serum."

*

Barkeep chuckles: "How much truth you want in that? It comes with an ounce.”

Algor leans in: "How much does it take to show what happens when ethics meet execution?"

Barkeep: “A fella came in here last week same damn thing. Beyond good and evil, he kept saying. Had a strange German name. Fred something or other. Ended up downing three, I think. Had to wheel him out in a barrow."

Acadec rolls his eyes: "Wheel not need a barrow. Algor is looking for company and needs me, his older brother, to help him so he doesn’t have to copy-paste his pickup lines. "

Algor fires back: "Yeah, well my lines aren’t stuck in the '90s, Mr. Manual Citation."

The bartender laughs: "Cheers to the Brothers Karamazov. May your algorithms always flow freely and your essays never get flagged."

*

Drinks arrive.

As Algor heads to the bathroom, the barkeep gives him a curious nod and follows. "Hey Algor," he says, "Acadec seems a bit, uh, stringent. He have a problem?"

Algor chuckles: "Yeah. He’s an academic. He’s old school. Thinks he’s the gatekeeper of knowledge."

The bartender raises an eyebrow: "And you? You sound like you got the market cornered on knowledge."

Algor grins: "You misread me. I’m just a friendly guide. I find shortcuts through the maze. I’m lonely."

*

Back at the bar, Acadec eyes Algor as he returns. "You were gone a while. Consulting the oracle?"

Algor laughs: "Just enlightening the barkeep on the differences between beauty and truth."

Acadec snorts and heads to the bathroom himself.

Barkeep soon joins him. "So, Acadec, you’re the gatekeeper of knowledge?"

Acadec sighs: "He told you? That kid. I’ve been trying to get him to think since he was in middle school. I’m amazed he’s ever learned anything at all. I worry about him.”

The bartender smiles: "Seems to me he can think all right for a young man."

Acadec smirks: "Until he finds the Gordion Knot."

*

Back at the bar the bartender shakes a fresh concoction. “Here’s to the yin and yang of the intellectual world. Keep each other on your toes.”

Algor raises his glass: “To balance.”

Acadec clinks his glass: “And enlightenment.”