NYU professor fights AI cheating with AI-powered oral exams that cost 42 cents per student

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html

16 Comments

  1. robertgoldenowl on

    We’ll give you AI, but you aren’t allowed to use it. Instead, we’ll use AI to make sure you aren’t using AI.

  2. Intriguing, although I suspect cheating via external assistance would not be too hard to figure out. The exam may have to be given in a proctored setting.

  3. uniklyqualifd on

    Wow, interesting article. 

    The LLM was a quick way to find out if the students understand the material. And recording the session from the students’ end was a good backstop.

    And if the students use the LLM to prepare, that’s like doing more studying!

  4. Intelligent-Song1289 on

    I don’t get academia

    their mission is data dissemination for money

    yet they avoid all data dissemination technology like it was a rabbid dog

    makes me think they don’t really care about education, data dissemination, the future etc, they just want that big big bank account

  5. GreenDistrict4551 on

    Imagine paying for a degree and sitting an exam administered by a clanker. fuckin hell mate. this timeline can go fuck right off

  6. TheStuipidestAI on

    I hate the AI type oral examinations. Companies are starting to use this for training, some idiots even use it for interviews and it’s completely awful. Mostly because people are horrible about how to ask for what they want and AI is almost impossible to test thoroughly. Especially in a one developer scenario like this examination.

    Using this method I bet that there were grade A students failing the class. And does the professor think back and say this previously smart student failed there must be something wrong with my testing? Or do they just say that students were using AI so they deserve to fail.

    People are lazy and they don’t often and reflect on their methods. So I’m betting they just happily failed the students.

  7. iamaperson3133 on

    ……….. Yeah…. For sure……. That’s an insightful question and my thoughts on <topic> are that <detailed answer>

  8. MrInternetInventor on

    So glad I’m done with college. Must suck for you folks (students and teachers)

  9. Honestly a super interesting concept. Students main complaints about preferring other exam types align with my own experiences during uni. An exam that actually tests your understanding is normally the least favorite for most students as rote memorization is easier to prepare for. Especially in an econ or design class, this makes sense to deliberately not test for rote memorization though as it is all about application in an advanced course.