Ethics & SecurityNovember 08, 2026
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Math Professor Gives Up on Homework
A math professor no longer grades homework because AI solves it too well, rendering the assignments pointless.
#education#ChatGPT#academic integrity#LLM
š„ What happened
UC Berkeley math professor Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework. He now only checks whether assignments were submitted ā because AI solves them anyway.
š” Why it matters
92 percent of German students use AI tools like ChatGPT at least occasionally. Borcherds warns that in a few years AI could outperform human mathematicians at everything. Even ChatGPT had no answer when he asked about the future of the field.
ā” Our take
Studying math today means learning to direct the AI, not compete with it. Grading calculation steps is dead; evaluating problem-finding is just beginning.
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