Using AI is not cheating.
It makes no sense to say that ‘using AI is cheating’, unless you know more about the context in which the AI was used.
- Using calculators used to be called cheating.
- Using the internet used to be called cheating.
- And one day we’ll say that using AI used to be cheating.
‘Cheating’ implies that students contravened the rules. So just change the rules.