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"We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University
AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica I think what boggles me most is the apparent casual ease of high-achieving students deciding to become cheaters. They knew it was wrong, an academic transgression of the highest order that could get them expelled, and they cheated anyway. This tells me that, however smart they are, they know little about ethical behavior and have internalized less. Maybe they will be punished, their records blackened forever, but I think not. (I would expel them.) They do not yet understand that the worst consequence of their cheating will be the loss of their integrity. Unless they are sociopaths, they will experience lifelong shame and regret at squandering a rare and privileged opportunity to learn.
Philosophically correct. For anyone who would choose to do so must already be an idiot.
@arstechnica a whole lot of people, especially ceos:
Hold are bear..
@arstechnica Leads to / product of. Tomato tomato.
@arstechnica
Cheating in general leads to a failed society.
Look at what's happening to the whole of the USA right now.
@arstechnica counterpoint: oh, we totally can!
Opening sentence:
"Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent."
No, @arstechnica , they are rich. Probably white, and probably male but, defitionally, rich.
And they became idiots a long time ago.
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