Professor Introduces Handwritten Notebooks To Reduce AI Cheating

Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, an assistant professor at New York University, began giving each student a $1 notebook at the semester's start to replace typed, AI-vulnerable submissions. She adopted the policy to reduce suspicion about AI-generated essays and to elicit more authentic handwritten analyses, noting it adds roughly two hours of grading weekly but increases engagement and garnered wide social interest.