Scores Fell 50% When College Professor Made Students Take In-Person Final: Artificial Intelligence Trends
When a college professor suspected students were using AI, he made them take an in-person final. Scores fell 50% – for those who took it. As discussed by Nate Anderson in ArsTechnica (Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%, available here), a blind economics professor at Brown University (Roberto Serrano) decided after a gunman attacked Brown’s campus and killed two people in December 2025 that his spring 2026 section of the quite difficult ECON 1170 would allow take-home exams for both the midterm and the final. Suddenly, the course received an influx of students....
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