Brown Professor Says AI Cheating Pushed Class Average To 96
Forty of his 86 students scored perfect, some copying phrasing an AI chatbot produces verbatim.
- Midterm average hit 96, up from a historical range of 65 to 80.
- Forty of 86 students in the class posted perfect scores on the exam.
- Serrano found answers matching ChatGPT's phrasing word for word on submitted work.
Why it matters: A test that cannot tell a student's mind from a machine's output has already stopped testing anything.
Roberto Serrano (Brown University economics professor), first-person essay in The Free Press ↗ · Jul 12, 20267/12/26