“Humanity has Chosen to Become Idiots”

 As many of you know I’ve worked with high school-age drug addicts for the last decade and had a chance to sit in public school with them.  Minnesota provides a school district, public teachers and the computers and materials to run a high school on our closed campus for the 25 kids in our treatment program.

I’ve personally witnessed how our “passing grade” high school kids of today are about as smart as a 3rd grader of 50 years ago.  They can’t write, they can’t use their heads to do simple math, they cut and paste test questions into another browser on their computer and let AI give them the answer to their multiple choice exam.  They don’t know about 9/11, they don’t know who America got it’s independence from, one asked me what 12+6 was because he forgot his calculator, they’ve been fed a whole boat load of woke ideology like “stolen land”, America is racist, capitalism is bad, etc…

Our forefathers understood that our republic would only work to govern an educated, moral and God-fearing populace.  We are now none of these things.  

And now these cheating, uneducated high school grads go on to college and cheat their way through to get a diploma.  When they get busted they just drop the class.  Read below what happened at Brown University, one of the most elite colleges in America…if it’s happening there just imagine what’s happening at all the lesser colleges around the country.

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Of the 86 students who took the March 5 exam, 40 scored a perfect 100. The class average was 96 whereas in previous years, the average had ranged between 65 and 80—and this exam, by design, was harder than usual. “The beauty of take-home exams used to be that we professors were able to challenge students a little more, just to push them to a higher level,” Serrano said. “The fact that this was a harder exam and this distribution made it absolutely clear that something very unusual had happened.”

Serrano got tipped off by something that was just too smart, he said. “Some answers contained unusual passages that coincided with results obtained after running the questions through ChatGPT,” Serrano said. His graders ran the exam questions through ChatGPT and made a telling discovery: the AI had generated a convoluted argument for a problem that has a much simpler, more elegant proof, and that same convoluted reasoning appeared across dozens of student exams. “This distribution made it clear that something seriously wrong had happened,” he said, calling it “absolutely ridiculous.”

But Seranno said he decided to give his students the benefit of the doubt: He wasn’t going to void the midterm, but told them the final exam would be in person. If the grade distribution didn’t roughly mirror the midterm’s, only the final would count.

When Serrano returned to class after grading, he told his students exactly what he’d found. “If you did this, if you just press a button to ask an AI agent to do this for you, you’re showing to be completely irrelevant. So my question to you is, why are you here? Why are you at a university if you refuse to learn, you refuse to work hard, if you refuse to put in the necessary effort to develop critical thinking?”

“If all you’re doing is just pressing a button to do to have this machine do the work for you, then you think you need a Brown degree for that?”

When asked about the initial reaction from his students, Serrano answered with just one word: “silence.” He suspected the cheaters weren’t even there: “I think most of the cheaters were not in class, frankly.” He closed class that day by reminding the students of the honor code. “You all signed this, right? Sadly, that’s the value of your signature.”

Following his speech, 27 students dropped the course; 22 of those had scored 100 on the take-home.

When the final came around, only 59 showed up for the in-person exam and 19 failed. The class average collapsed to 48 out of 100: by far the lowest final exam average in the course’s history. “The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming,” Serrano said. “When you put together all this information and the distributions of the two exams, it’s absolutely clear.”

After assembling his evidence, Serrano sent it to Brown’s dean of the college and provost. Neither responded initially. After he escalated the case to the university’s Academic Code Committee, he received a note calling the incident “a wake-up call.” The provost, he said, has maintained complete silence to this day.

https://fortune.com/2026/06/29/roberto-serrano-brown-university-massacre-ai-cheating/