education
Two Essays About AI and Your Brain, and One Actual Study News
A randomized experiment found that AI assistance impaired conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging while delivering no significant average speed gain, which supports the concern behind this week's viral developer essays but not their proposed fix.
A Brown professor moved a final in person, and the near-perfect scores collapsed News
A Brown University economics professor who suspected AI cheating switched his take-home final to an in-person exam, and average scores fell by roughly half — a stark data point in the growing fight over what take-home 'mastery' now measures.
Smart glasses fed students live exam answers -- and schools have no idea how to stop it News
A cheating ring at Brown used AI-connected glasses to pipe real-time answers onto the lenses, and universities across Asia are seeing the same thing.
GPTZero Tool
The widely used AI-writing detector (about 19M users) that estimates how likely a passage was machine-generated; being acquired by Superhuman to build a persistent authenticity layer.