AI-Powered Cheating Epidemic: Grades Plummet 48% When Students Are Forced to Go Solo
A Brown University economics professor has exposed a shocking case of AI-facilitated cheating, where students' grades dropped from 96% to 48% when they were required to take an in-person exam without AI assistance. This incident highlights a growing concern about the impact of AI on academic integrity and the need for educators to adapt to this new reality.
An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his 86 students used AI to cheat on a take-home exam that averaged 96 percent. When he made the final an in-person test, 18 students dropped the course, nine didn't show up, and the average fell to 48.6 percent. Two large studies from China and UC Berkeley back up his case: where students lean on AI for homework, their proctored exam scores tank. The article Grades dropped from 96 to 48 percent when a Brown professor made students take the exam without AI appeared first on The Decoder.