Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano criticized his school for its slow response to a massive artificial intelligence (AI) cheating scandal among his students earlier this year. After a deadly shooting on campus in December, Serrano moved his in-class midterm and final exam to an online, take-home format. This led to a significant increase in course enrollment, with 86 students signing up, compared to the previous record of 30 students.

Investigation and Response

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 AI tools like ChatGPT. As a result, Serrano 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.

Despite providing his findings to Brown University’s Committee on the Academic Code, Serrano wrote that he did not receive any acknowledgment from the school regarding his evidence until the story went viral last month. In a comment to Fox News Digital, Brown University maintained that it has been ‘consistently responsive’ to Serrano’s concerns regarding AI cheating.

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