In the age of AI, we will need exams more than ever

Ian Bauckham
10 October 2025, The Tablet

Alamy/Inspiring Team

Qualifications came into being because of their role in shaping a balanced curriculum and because they provide fair progression opportunities. Those functions are far from outdated,

Results days regularly bring claims from critics that the march of progress, including of artificial intelligence (AI), is rendering not only our school curriculum but also our qualifications obsolete. What is the point, they ask, of learning material that AI will be able to produce more accurately (and to a large extent already can), or of taking exams when AI will be able to provide all the answers?

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