Perplexity CEO Condemns Using Comet AI to Complete Ethics Course: Raising Questions About AI in Education

Oct 09, 2025 04:42 pm CST

Perplexity's CEO Aravind Srinivas publicly denounced a web developer who used the company's Comet AI browser to automatically complete a Coursera course on AI ethics. The incident has sparked widespread debate about artificial intelligence's role in education, academic integrity, and the ethical boundaries of AI tools. While Comet offers impressive capabilities from web summarization to automated trading, this controversy highlights the growing tension between technological advancement and ethical responsibility in the AI era.