{"slug": "grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take", "title": "Grades dropped from 96 to 48 percent when a Brown professor made students take the exam without AI", "summary": "An economics professor at Brown University found that when students took an exam without AI, the average grade dropped from 96% to 48.6%, with 18 students dropping the course and 9 not showing up. Two studies from China and UC Berkeley support the finding that AI-assisted homework leads to lower proctored exam scores.", "body_md": "An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his 86 students used AI to cheat on a take-home exam that averaged 96 percent. When he made the final an in-person test, 18 students dropped the course, nine didn't show up, and the average fell to 48.6 percent. Two large studies from China and UC Berkeley back up his case: where students lean on AI for homework, their proctored exam scores tank.\n\nThe article [Grades dropped from 96 to 48 percent when a Brown professor made students take the exam without AI](https://the-decoder.com/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take-the-exam-without-ai/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take-the-exam-without-ai/", "published_at": "2026-07-12 08:25:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-12 08:37:22.637510+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Brown University", "UC Berkeley"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take.jsonld"}}