UC Berkeley's Richard Borcherds drops graded homework over AI use
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Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley mathematics professor and Fields Medal winner, no longer grades his students' homework for correctness.
He grades on completion only, after seeing many students use AI to earn top scores. He says the system is "not a very good system" but that he has no alternative for now.
A later IThome report, citing the New York Post, says Borcherds now assesses students mainly through in-person exams with no electronic devices, because AI use makes it impossible to tell whether homework is the student's own work. It also quotes him saying average online exam scores have risen sharply. Borcherds also says he no longer knows what to advise students about entering the math department.
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- IThome · AINewsBerkeley mathematician Richard Borcherds drops graded homework over AI cheating
AIFields Medal winner Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor, says he no longer assigns graded homework because AI use makes it impossible to tell whether students wrote their own work. He now assesses students mainly through in-person exams with no electronic devices. Borcherds told the New York Post that average online exam scores have risen sharply.
- Hacker News · AI (150+ points)BlogUC Berkeley math professor Richard Borcherds stops grading homework because of AI use
AIRichard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students' homework for correctness, grading on completion instead after seeing many students use AI to get top scores. He says the system is "not a very good system" but he has no alternative for now. Borcherds also says he no longer knows what to advise students about entering the math department.
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