2+ hour, 47+ min ago  (610+ words) Took University of Chicago Law School An unconventional step in addressing the impact of AI tools within the educational environment, after adopting a new policy requiring students to keep laptop computers closed during lectures, in an attempt to enhance focus,…...

6+ hour, 17+ min ago  (451+ words) Some stories write themselves. This is one of those stories. Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano had been teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory for nearly two decades ago when he decided to give his students take-home exams this…...

10+ hour, 3+ min ago  (647+ words) Blind Brown University professor Roberto Serrano exposes massive AI cheating scandal after students' score The Economic Times Roberto Serrano, a veteran economics professor at Brown University, has gone viral on social media after alleging that many of his students relied…...

11+ hour, 51+ min ago  (324+ words) A Brown University professor suspects most of his class used AI to cheat after a take-home exam averaged 96 percent, while an in-person test produced the lowest scores ever. Two large studies confirm this pattern: where students rely on AI for…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1036+ words) The risk of students using AI to cheat tends to get a lot of attention – with good reason. A student can simply copy and paste a prompt into a chatbot and receive a polished paragraph, a five-paragraph essay, a lab…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (772+ words) Iris Liao is a recent graduate of Newton Country Day School who will attend Boston University in the fall. During an English writing assignment, a student glances around the room to make sure that the teacher is distracted before quietly…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (978+ words) A student can simply copy and paste a prompt into a chatbot and receive a polished paragraph, a five-paragraph essay, a lab summary or a reading response almost instantly. Teachers may then be left wondering whether the work reflects the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (401+ words) Saturday July 11, 2026 A Brown University economics professor said he uncovered widespread suspected use of generative artificial intelligence by students after unusually high scores on a take-home midterm exam prompted a comparison with ChatGPT-generated answers. Professor Roberto Serrano said the issue…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (295+ words) AI is starting to make some classrooms look a little more old school. The University of Chicago Law School is requiring first-year students to keep their laptops closed in class this fall, as part of a broader strategy to ensure…...

2+ day, 56+ min ago  (265+ words) As some may have already suspected, the rise of AI appears to be coming at the expense of learning and critical thinking skills. Suspicious that many students had used AI in a take-home exam for their midterms in March, economics…...