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Oscar Davis, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University

What is the Socratic method? Could it be used to test students in an age of AI?

Alcibiades being taught by Socrates, Francois Andre Vincent (1777). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Most students now use AI in their tertiary studies. AI can also, under certain conditions, answer at least 65% of questions correctly in STEM subjects.

In the humanities, where the whole aim is critical and creative reflection, educators face a thorny question. How do you develop and measure thinking of the kind that a machine could not genuinely imitate?

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