Exams in the Age of AI: What Are We Really Testing?

I asked this question in my notes last week and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write a post about it: I just saw in the news that professors are going back to oral exams to prevent students from using AI. What do you think about this? What surprised me wasn’t just the range of opinions, but how each response touched a different layer of the same problem. As a data scientist, I can’t help but see this less as an “AI cheating” issue and more as a signal that our evaluation systems are being stress-tested by a new variable they weren’t designed for.

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