AI Use Leads Berkeley Professor to Stop Grading Homework

Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades students' homework. Seeing many students use AI to consistently score top marks, he said paying readers to grade for correctness serves 'no point,' as AI use is now unavoidable.

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