Can game theory explain grade inflation and AI cheating?: a non-technical conceptual analysis and proposed research program
Eric C. Prichard
Game theory emerged in the 1940's as a method of using mathematical models and games played in experimental situations to model human behavior in the context of economic situations. This paper argues that some basic ideas from game theory, combined with Goodhart's Law, suggest that grade inflation, defined as the gradual increase in high marks given out at universities over the last several decades, and even widespread AI cheating, defined as using AI to complete work and then claiming it as one