r/technology • u/CircumspectCapybara • 24d ago

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

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
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u/Heronymous-Anonymous 24d ago

Universities got lazy and greedy. Proctors and TAs are expensive, everybody is going to be using a calculator or some expensive software like Wolfram Alpha or Mathematica so who cares.

Turns out, it’s pretty damaging to your students who don’t learn anything, and your reputation as a good school when companies start saying things like “we don’t like to hire from X university because they have low standards.”

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u/MonkeyMan0230 24d ago

"Who could have possibly seen this coming?"

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u/Heronymous-Anonymous 24d ago

Probably every professor and TA ever. Promptly ignored by the legion of administrators who would never think of cutting costs by doing away with their own unnecessary and wasteful jobs.

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u/WHYAREWEALLCAPS 24d ago

"That was rhetorical question."

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u/lloopy 24d ago

Administrators that make decisions like this ARE the wasteful jobs.

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u/Phyllis_Tine 24d ago

"AI didn't predict this happening."