The Brown University Cheating Scandal
There's been a story out over the past week or so about a cheating scandal at Brown University. It's behind a paywall at the incongruously named Free Press , but the gist of it is at USA Today . There's a new morality emerging in the corridors of America's finest universities: If you're not cheating, you're a sucker. Look no further than Brown University, where an artificial intelligence cheating scandal has rattled longtime economics professor Roberto Serrano. This spring, after three decades of teaching at Brown, Serrano let his students take their midterm exam at home, upping the difficulty to compensate for the unlimited time. The average score, which had historically run between 65% and 80%, jumped to 96%. Was that a particularly studious class? Maybe. But Serrano suspected a simpler explanation: AI. He announced that the final would be given in person, causing 18 students to drop the class. Nine more didn't bother showing up for the ...