Brown professor accuses class of widespread AI cheating

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As colleges and universities grapple with AI, cheating must be taken seriously, Serrano said. "We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK," he said. "That leads to a declining society, to a failed society ... We cannot choose to become idiots."

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"We cannot choose to become idiots."

They're not choosing.  They are already idiots.  They are merely proving the fact, en masse.

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As colleges and universities grapple with AI, cheating must be taken seriously, Serrano said. "We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK," he said. "That leads to a declining society, to a failed society ... We cannot choose to become idiots."

That's not what the dean told us in 1979.  I think it was more along the lines of: "We can't let this get picked up by WLS."