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Richard Borcherds says his new approach to grading is “not a very good system”, but that he currently has no alternative. Hoodline reports that the Berkeley mathematician now gives credit for completing homework rather than marking whether answers are correct.

The report says Berkeley’s Academic Senate asks instructors to state their expectations for AI use in course syllabuses, while leaving the rules to individual faculty. That makes Borcherds’s approach a decision for his own classes, not a university-wide policy.

Hoodline also says Berkeley’s Research, Teaching, and Learning Commons has warned that AI-detection tools provide no conclusive proof, and that their role in academic-integrity investigations remains unclear. The distinction matters: the account presents detection as no settled answer, not a replacement for deciding what assessment should measure.

Sources and evidence

• UC Berkeley Professor Stops Grading Homework Over AI – Hoodline: Hoodline reports that Richard Borcherds considers his completion-based homework grading an imperfect stopgap; Berkeley leaves course AI rules to instructors, and its Research, Teaching, and Learning Commons says AI-detection tools provide no conclusive proof.

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