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Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

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“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

“this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...”

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Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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nber.org

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“I'm starting to see a pretty coherent body of research pointing to this answer. For example, this paper "Social Dynamics of AI Adoption" is about *parents*: "Anxiety about falling behind can drive people to embrace emerging technologies with uncertain conse…”

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Now is the time to give llms access to the acm digital library

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“Depressing that ACM is probably correct about this: "AI-assisted literature reviews ... are already changing research workflows. Publishers absent from AI ecosystems risk becoming repositories of record rather than sources of influence." cacm.acm.org/opinio…”

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CS students AI job anxiety paper

Job Anxiety in Post-Secondary Computer Science Students Caused by Artificial Intelligence

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“In the context of CS students specifically, from a preprint: "Some students are reluctant to use AI but feel pressure to do so anyway. This is because they feel that their peers use AI and can write code more efficiently as a result, potentially making them…”

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GAITL Committee Report FNL

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“Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use on their learning, and 87% indicated fear of negative consequ…”

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tandfonline.com

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“And of course this is true beyond educational contexts as well: problematic gen AI use in general being driven in part by comparative/competitive pressure and a "fear of being left behind." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....”

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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

5 experts · 29 posts · 4d ago
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Casey Fiesler: A common Q I get on social media is: how do I get into tech/AI ethics as a field/for a job? I would love some help with this! What is some helpful advice here that (a) is not about academia or even…
Casey Fiesler: What kinds of jobs would you point folks to after that?
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2 experts · 4 posts · 7d ago
Casey Fiesler: If anyone would like to write a dissertation about my social media comments I have some theories. But the funniest phenomenon right now is the number of men who are leaving comments I’m 90% sure we…
Amy Hoy: i understand it when they're trying to market something. (i don't accept it. but a profit motive is, at least, very clear.) i don't understand it AT ALL when there's no actual gain. bc they *don't*…
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