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7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“[laughs] We’re quite good at figuring it out and also moving towards assessments where we almost encourage it, and are comfortable with the fact that they’re using these tools because we want to see what they’re able to do with them.”
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- 7 Jan 2026
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…Can someone fool you by using an AI cheating tool, or do you feel you more or less always know? I think that there were cases where people could fool us, but now we’re quite good at figuring it out. [laughs] We’re quite good at figuring it out and also moving towards assessments where we almost encourage it, and are comfortable with the fact that they’re using these tools because we want to see what they’re able to do with them. You were a Thiel Fellow, and you dropped out. How could they improve their methods?…
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