Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

According to Hacker News, a professor at Brown University, suspecting that students were leaning on AI to complete their work, ordered an in-person final exam. The result was striking: scores fell by fifty percent. The episode has become a flashpoint in the debate over what generative AI is doing to learning, captured in one professor's blunt warning that we cannot choose to become idiots.

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