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# College Economics Professor Catches Students Using ChatGPT on Exams
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/college-economics-professor-catches-students-using-chatgpt-on-exams/
- Published: 2026-07-12T16:09:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-12T16:09:51.000Z
- Description: When a Brown University professor discovered his students were systematically using ChatGPT to pass economics exams, it exposed a real enforcement problem: institutions lack reliable detection mechanisms and the incentives to deploy them.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-consumer, generational shifts, attention economy, platform dynamics

Source: [Azeem Azhar, Exponential View](https://open.substack.com/pub/exponentialview/p/ev-592)

When a Brown University professor discovered his students were systematically using ChatGPT to pass economics exams, it exposed a real enforcement problem: institutions lack reliable detection mechanisms and the incentives to deploy them. Universities now face a choice between redesigning assessments entirely or accepting that traditional testing no longer functions as intended. For edtech, publishing, and credential providers, the shift is immediate and concrete—the exam-based model of proof-of-knowledge is breaking down faster than institutions can rebuild alternatives.