The Van Wickle Gates at the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., August 16, 2022(Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Emma Whitford at Inside Higher Education has a story from Brown University that is hair-raising even by the appalling standards of the current epidemic of students relying on artificial intelligence as a substitute for learning anything.
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano found his Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory class swamped with nearly triple its usual enrollment when he promised to give take-home exams — and then found that the average grade on his midterm was a 96. Suitably alarmed by the uniformity of the grades and other red flags of reliance on AI to write the answers, he challenged the class
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