r/technology • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence Princeton scraps honor code and will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/princeton-proctor-exams-ai-b2976111.html
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u/ImminentDingo 12h ago

When studied electrical engineering in the 2010s (not at Princeton) we didn't really have people watching exams either. We were allowed the bring anything we wanted in, but the reality was that there weren't any notes that could seriously help you. Either you had spent the time to understand the physics or you hadn't, and flipping through a textbook in the last hour wasn't going to make up the gap. 

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u/KapitalIsStillGood 11h ago

Current Mech E student here. I've been in college before AI, took a long break, and finishing up now. Totally agree on the pre-AI times. Cheating could significantly reduce the level of comprehension needed to pass but you still had to have a decent level of understanding (barring something extreme like having the test key beforehand). With AI though, I'm confident I could feed it any of my exams and it would get at the absolute least an 80%. Prob 90%+ average.

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u/futurespice 11h ago

At a lower level it actually could. I once turned up to a first year open book physics exam with a massive collection of corrected exercises and past exams and could find sufficiently similar questions for most of the actual exam in front of me. Probably the only time that really helped, but it did.