Source: Azeem Azhar, Exponential View
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.