Denmark adds oral defenses to 9,000 take-home essays as AI cheating spreads
Schools must also monitor exam computers as Denmark shifts assessment from trusting submitted text to testing students in person.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Mezha
Why it matters
Denmark is replacing trust in take-home prose with live verification. That raises examination costs, but it offers schools a practical alternative to unreliable AI-detection software.
Denmark on August 6th ordered oral defenses for a major take-home assignment completed by roughly 9,000 upper-secondary students each year, part of an immediate response to generative AI's erosion of confidence in unsupervised written work, The Guardian reported.…
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