How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition

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Princeton's 133-year-old Honor Code, established in 1893, has been compromised by generative AI.
The Honor Code previously relied on students pledging honesty and reporting cheating peers, with professors leaving exam rooms.
The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has made cheating easier and harder to detect, leading to increased academic dishonesty.
Princeton's Committee on Discipline saw a rise in academic violations, with a senior survey indicating significant cheating and underreporting.
In response, Princeton faculty will now proctor exams, and the university is reducing take-home exams, adding oral defenses, and shifting to in-class writing.
This change signifies a return to a 'system of suspicion and surveillance' and alters the traditional student-faculty relationship based on trust.

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