International News: Brown University Professor alleges widespread AI cheating in exam

'Humanity has chosen to become idiots': This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating

When Brown University Professor Roberto Serrano changed the format of his midterm exam last spring, he was thinking about his students’ mental health, not academic fraud. Two of them had been shot, including Ella Cook, a young woman who had sat in his office just days before the December 13 massacre at Brown University and asked him to be her academic advisor. “We had a very nice conversation,” Serrano recalled in an interview with Fortune. “She…

International News: Brown University Professor alleges widespread AI cheating in exam

By Zoila Palma:  A Brown University professor has raised alarm over what he describes as “overwhelming evidence” of widespread cheating in one of his economics courses, warning that artificial intelligence is putting academic integrity under serious threat. Roberto Serrano, a professor of economics at Brown University, says at least 50 students in his advanced undergraduate course, ECON 1170, cheated during a March midterm exam. The exam, a take…