This highlights a problem with the evaluation method not the students.
If you give me a hard arithmetic problem, I will pull up a calculator and do it. If you remove it from my hands, I would perform worse. The question is: Why does it matter? It doesn’t! I don’t need to be able to do hard arithmetic by head because there are calculators. This is why students use them on exams.
The same thing is now true with AI. If you give an exam based on things that AI can easily do, you test the AI and not the student.
Exams and faculty need to evolve with technological progress instead of shifting the blame onto students. We cannot teach students that technological progress is good and at the same time blame them for adopting it.
A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.