An NYU professor who hates that students' work reads like McKinsey memos held AI oral exams to 'fight fire with fire'

An NYU business school professor turned to AI-powered oral exams to test student understanding.

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• An NYU professor turned to AI oral exams after student work began resembling McKinsey memos.
• He used an AI agent to scale oral exams, a format long viewed as too time-consuming to run.
• The experiment comes as universities reassess how to test students fairly in the AI era.

The assignments looked brilliant. The understanding didn't.