Suspecting AI Cheating, Ivy League Prof Ordered an in-Person Final; Scores Fell 50%

Mass AI Cheating at Brown Raises Shocker Query: Is an Ivy League Degree Worth $90,000 a Year?

A Brown University professor believes around 50 of his students used artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat their way to perfect midterm scores this spring, and he says the university's top leadership has answered his evidence with silence. For families paying $97,016 (£72,400) a year, the scandal poses an uncomfortable question about what an Ivy League degree actually proves. The Numbers That Gave the Game Away Roberto Serrano, an economics prof…

A Brown professor's proof of mass AI cheating

A Brown professor moved his exam in-person and the class average crashed from 96 to 48, turning a fuzzy worry about AI cheating into a hard number.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. They don't need to use generative AI to cheat on exams; they could just learn the material. But they also tend to be competitive, ambitious, and overscheduled, so AI can look like an easy shortcut that makes more time in their lives for things that can't be done by a chatbot. When the pressure is on, which approach do they choose? A new scandal at Brown University reveals that huge num…

Brown University Prof Bans Take-Home Exams After Mass-Cheating

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Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said. For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm this spring. Quite a few students had expressed anxiety about being in a classroom after a gunman killed two students and injured nine in a December mass shooting at Brown, and so “it was appropriate,” he said, to allow students to take their exams at home.

Brown University professor bans take-home exams after mass cheating

A Brown University professor says he will no longer allow students to take exams at home after he caught a large chunk of his class cheating on a test. Economics Professor Roberto Serrano said he allowed students to take a midterm at home, and 40 students, nearly half the class, earned a perfect 100; among the 86 students in the class, the average overall class score was 96… Source