Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano criticized his school on Sunday for its slow response to a massive artificial intelligence (AI) cheating scandal among his students earlier this year.In an op-ed for The Free Press, Serrano recounted that he announced that after a deadly shooting took place on campus in December, he opted to move his in-class midterm and final exam to an online, take-home format for the upcoming semester.As a result, he saw his course enrollment jump to 86 students, beating the course's previous record of 30 students enrolled at one time.Serrano reported that the average grade of the online midterm was 96, significantly higher than the previous years' average of between 65 and 80.
He also found that 40 students achieved a perfect score and detected answers that resembled responses provided by ChatGPT.AI BACKLASH REACHES MAJOR UNIVERSITY WITH BOLD BAN ON LAPTOPS AND PHONES FOR LAW STUDENTSBrown University professor Roberto Serrano alleges that at least 50 of his students used AI to cheat on his midterm exam this year.(Brian Snyder/Reuters)As a result, he announced that the final exam would return to an in-person format and that the midterm scores would be declared void if they did not resemble the average final scores.
After this decision, Serrano found that only 59 students took the final exam, leading to an average grade of 48.6 with a maximum score of 95 and minimum of zero.Of the 27 students who dropped the course and the final exam, Serrano noted, 22 had received a perfect score on the midterm exam.Despite providing his findings to Brown University's Committee on the Academic Code and the campus paper, The Brown Daily Herald, which previously reported on campus-wide cheating in April, Serrano wrote that he did not receive any acknowledgment from the school regarding his evidence until the story went viral last month.95% OF FACULTY SAY AI MAKING STUDENTS DANGEROUSLY DEPENDENT ON TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING: SURVEYSerrano wrote in...