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Since In early May 2026, exam boards worldwide have grappled with AI‑enabled cheating tools that capture questions, query large‑language‑model AIs and deliver answers via smart glasses or bone‑conduction audio. Leaked the Polish Matura suffered simultaneous leaks of the language and mathematics papers, prompting the Centralna Komisja Egzaminacyjna to warn that any use of communicating devices would invalidate results. The same week, Cambridge AS Level International cancelled a leaked AS‑Level Mathematics papers prompted bans exam and scheduled a replacement exams, for 9 June, while Ghana’s police denied rumours of a promotion‑exam paper breach. Poland’s new Matura administration soon revealed procedural flaws: prohibited smartphones were photographed, AI tools supplied answers, and dozens of scores were annulled, leading the UK reported more than 2,200 exam board to reinforce sealed‑bag envelopes and consider electronic‑device detectors. In the United Kingdom, Ofqual issued heightened alerts about smart‑device cheating, reporting 2,225 incidents in the previous summer. By late June, South Korea, Taiwan summer and China confirmed that such devices could bypass traditional safeguards; offenders faced multi‑year urging schools to train invigilators to spot concealed glasses, earpieces and video‑pen devices. Parallel guidance urged parents to support exam‑time routines as mobile‑phone bans were strictly enforced. June saw academic studies highlight that AI‑driven proctoring and provinces began systematic eyewear inspections ahead of the Gaokao, an exam involving over 13 million students. A Hong‑Kong university trial showed the devices propelling participants consumer wearables were turning exams into the top‑hundred real‑time search engines, with 44 % of an engineering exam, underscoring their potency. Commercialisation accelerated as manufacturers sold inexpensive AI malpractice cases linked to smart devices. East Asian test centres reported multiple arrests for using AI‑enabled smart glasses that photograph questions and rental platforms listed them for daily hire. In response, display AI‑generated answers, prompting China has deployed a high‑tech security network for to screen all eyewear before the 2026 Gaokao, treating test papers as top‑secret state material. Papers are printed in isolated facilities, transported in armored, GPS‑tracked vehicles under satellite surveillance, Gaokao and stored behind three‑layer steel doors. Test centres now feature AI‑enhanced facial‑recognition cameras, infrared sensors, metal‑detector gates Taiwan to investigate heat‑emitting frames. The privacy debate intensified as the glasses’ built‑in cameras and continuous monitoring location sensors raised concerns over covert recording. South Korea’s Ministry of Education responded on 2 August by SWAT‑type police, aimed at making any attempt classifying AI glasses as prohibited exam items, while universities scrambled to cheat virtually impossible. Education ministries across draft handling policies. Across the affected regions regions, ministries continue to revamp exam designs, redesign assessments, develop detection methods technologies and tighten screening procedures to preserve assessment integrity. On 15 July 2026 a man in Gwangju, South Korea was criminally charged after using AI‑enabled smart glasses to cheat on a fire‑protection engineering licensing exam, prompting stricter prohibitions. By the end of July, South Korean analysts highlighted a parallel privacy debate. Built‑in cameras and sensors in safeguard exam integrity amid the glasses raise concerns about covert recording rapid spread of faces, conversations and locations. AI‑enabled cheating tools.