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Open original source ↗So using AI is a form of cheating, then they’re told at graduation AI is the future, meaning this professor failed to prepare them.
And you wonder why students boo and walk out on AI commencement speakers.
If universities were properly doing their job, graduating students would be the most coveted employees in the workforce as they would most prepared to lead their businesses into this new AI world, like graduates did with the internet 25 years ago, and the PC 40+ years ago.
Instead students get muddled and conflicting messages about using AI and left confused about what is expected of them.
Why is AI cheating in the classroom but these tools are not, and often a requirement for class work:
A PC
The Internet, with Google searches
A Word Processor with spell and grammar checkers
A Calculator with all its functions and memory
Spreadsheets with all its formulas and available plug-ins
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A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm. https://t.co/hekcGsz76h
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