{"id":242217,"date":"2026-07-11T03:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/a-brown-professors-proof-of-mass-ai-cheating\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T07:35:08","slug":"a-brown-professors-proof-of-mass-ai-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/11\/a-brown-professors-proof-of-mass-ai-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brown professor&#8217;s proof of mass AI cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/brown-university-ai-cheating-in-person-exam-serrano\">A Brown professor&#8217;s proof of mass AI cheating<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/brown-university-ai-cheating-in-person-exam-serrano\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/brown-university-ai-cheating-in-person-exam-serrano<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-08 18:31:24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thenextweb.com\">thenextweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary of the Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn economics professor at Brown University, Roberto Serrano, suspects that a significant portion of his class cheated using AI tools during a take-home midterm exam. The average score during this exam came out to 96 out of 100, with 40 students achieving a perfect score. However, when he switched the final exam to an in-person format, the class average plummeted to 48. The drastic change and some of the unusually convoluted answers made Serrano suspicious of AI usage. A follow-up survey conducted after informing the students about the comparison between in-person and take-home formats indicated at least 50 instances of cheating during the midterm. The issue raises concerns about how AI is impacting educational integrity and cognitive capacities of students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr. Serrano suspects large-scale cheating with the use of AI during a take-home midterm that averaged 96 out of 100.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>By switching the final to an in-person test, the average score fell to 48, suggesting a prevalence of AI use.<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong>Many high-scoring students on the midterm dropped the course or skipped the final, further indicating potential cheating.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>There is a broader trend of AI-assisted cheating which is affecting many educational institutions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Serrano argues that allowing cheating to become normalized among students threatens the intellectual integrity of society.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Brown professor&#8217;s proof of mass AI cheating https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/brown-university-ai-cheating-in-person-exam-serrano Publish Date: 2026-07-08 18:31:24 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/07\/ivy-league-brown-university.avif","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242219,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242217\/revisions\/242219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}