'Friends don't let friends give AI-cheatable assignments' circulates among academics
paulnovosad · x · 2026-08-26
A slogan from academic Brendan Nyhan — "Friends don't let friends give assignments that are AI-cheatable" — is spreading widely. Economist Paul Novosad suggests printing it out and taping it to the door of every professor still living in 2021, and keeping it there until they change their grading structure, reflecting AI's ongoing disruption of coursework and assessment in higher education.
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