Brown In-Person Exam Exposes AI Reliance
theomitsa · x · 2026-07-13
After noticing highly uniform assignment styles suspected to be heavily reliant on generative AI, Roberto Serrano, an economics professor at Brown University, moved the final exam to a strictly in-person format.
The results were stark: 18 students dropped the class immediately, the average final exam score plummeted from 96 to 48.6, and nearly 20 students failed. While a take-home midterm designed to reduce anxiety had inflated averages to abnormally high levels, the in-person exam laid bare the students' true dependence on AI.
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