AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch

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Even after July 1, however, professors will not interfere directly with attempts to cheat. Instead, they will observe and take notes, serving as “an additional witness in the room” who can testify in cases later brought before the Honor Court.

AI has quickly upended education, pushing many teachers to back off on written assignments and take-home tests in favor of in-class or even oral exams. As Princeton’s example shows, though, not even this is enough; plenty of students, given the chance, will just as happily use AI to cheat while in a classroom surrounded by their peers if they can get away with it.

Such widespread outsourcing of thought and memory is deeply depressing to many educators. This includes our own Scott Johnson, who recently penned a piece for Arsabout what it feels like to grade so many responses generated by machines rather than by humans. (Hint: It does...

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