Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave a take-home midterm this spring, and after the average score reached 96 percent he ran the exam through ChatGPT and found answers mirroring his students' work; he then made the final in-person, voided the midterm, and 19 students failed the class. Serrano said Brown administrators' response was "meek," and a Brown committee on generative AI reported that three-quarters of surveyed faculty are concerned about students using AI to cheat.