Are students outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools?

Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.

"A culture of effort and hard work should be inherent to learning. I worry many of our students now have the wrong idea..."

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.

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

When Brown University economics professor Robert Serrano suspected that most of his students had used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm exam, he decided to compare...

Are students outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools?

Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating

Brown University professor Roberto Serrano saw scores drop between a take-home midterm and an in-person final. He suspects widespread AI cheating.