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‘Cognitive surrender’: Are college students who use AI really learning?

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Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm. He immediately suspected “massive cheating,” because the grade distribution was, in his words, “absurd.”

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    Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm. He immediately suspected “massive cheating,” because the grade distribution was, in his words, “absurd.”

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