Brown Professor Switches Final to In-Person After Suspecting AI Cheating
A viral X post says one Brown economics course saw much lower final-exam scores after a take-home midterm raised suspicions about AI use.
In a widely shared post on X, Paul Graham said a Brown professor gave students a take-home midterm, then switched the final to in-person after suspecting AI-assisted cheating. Graham's post points to a chart comparing the two exams and argues that scores fell sharply on the final. So far, the public evidence is the post and the image attached to it, not an independent university statement or outside reporting.
A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores.
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