AI Use Convinces California Math Professor There's 'No Point' Grading Homework
From the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley: Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students' homework. After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top scores, he felt there was "no point" in paying readers to grade for correctness in homework, as AI use is now unavoidable. Borcherds revealed this in…
Richard Borcherds, a Fields medalist professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has stopped grading his students' homework. He observed that AI usage allowed many students to achieve top scores consistently, leading him to believe there was no point in paying for human graders to assess correctness. This revelation came after OpenAI reported that AI agents solved one of mathematics' most challenging unsolved problems, the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
Borcherds predicts that AI will soon surpass human mathematicians in capabilities, making it impossible for humans to excel in this field. Currently, Borcherds grades homework based on completion, acknowledging that this system is inadequate. Campus has experimented with various AI detection tools such as Turnitin and Rumi, but none have proven effective enough for campus-wide implementation.
Each class at UC Berkeley determines its own AI policy, leaving the decision up to individual faculty members.
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