We all love agentic AI when it streamlines our workflow or automates mundane tasks like compliance training, don’t we? Of course, we don’t want the latter. However, since ChatGPT 5.0’s launch, some employees have been using AI agents to complete their compliance training, and it’s a walk in the park. Neither do you need coding expertise nor deep knowledge to create a complex tool.
The Rise of Agentic Cheating
These agents can log in, read or scrape the course material, and respond to assessment questions with near-perfect accuracy, all while the employee prepares coffee in the background. Do you want to see an example? Check the video below.
Passive L&D Is a Liability
Under the UK’s new Failure to Prevent Fraud offense and the stricter auditing standards of the Employment Rights Act 2025, claiming “we assigned the training” is no longer a sufficient legal defense. If a regulator audits your firm and finds that staff are certified but incompetent, the company faces massive fines.
You need an effective system that provides stricter control and proctoring without creating a ‘Big Brother’ surveillance culture that destroys trust.
Moving from Delivery to Verification
To validate that your employees, not AI agents, complete the training and assessments, you can implement several practices, such as browser lockdown, ID verification, and AI-assisted behavioural analysis, while remaining compliant with data protection and privacy regulations. Of course, human oversight should always be part of the equation.
Using interactive videos instead of passive ones that your team can easily skip by hitting the ‘next’ button, you can measure engagement and completion. An LMS with strong online proctoring tools and features can also help you authenticate test takers and prevent AI-cheating.
Restoring Data Integrity
You get benefits from this system in two ways. First, you protect your company from massive fines. Second, your employees genuinely retain knowledge.
You will have concrete evidence that your employees not only completed their exercises and passed tests, but your data will also help you, in the future, to identify gaps, personalize training and development, and update your courses and documents accordingly.
The New Standard of Trust
AI has always been a double-edged sword, and AI cheating is another proof of that. You can categorize this use as an automation, but not in your organization’s best interest, unfortunately.
By adopting a platform like Vedubox that prioritizes human verification through proctoring and interactivity, you can ensure that when their data says ‘certified,’ it actually means ‘competent.’
