Students Cheating With AI Caused This Ivy League School to Overturn a 133-Year-Old Tradition

Students at Princeton University are about to experience something they haven't since the late 1800s: having someone watch them take their exams. The change stems from concerns about the proliferation of AI-related cheating among college students. 

The change goes into effect on July 1. Exams taken after that date will be proctored, the formal term for being supervised to ensure academic integrity while testing. Proctoring can come in many forms, including cameras, microphones and screen-sharing software. Princeton's solution is to use human instructors to witness the students taking exams and then report infractions to the student-run honor committee for punishment. 

The switch to proctoring was requested by both faculty and students. According to Princeton, students were concerned that cheating with generative AI is too easy since it can take place on personal devices like ...