Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
Monday, December 29, 2025 Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent It all started with cold calling. In our new “AI/ML Product Management” class, the “pre-case” submissions (short assignments meant to prepare students for class discussion) were looking suspiciously good. Not “strong student” good. More like “this reads like a McKinsey memo that went through three rounds of editing,” good. So we started cold calling students randomly during class. The result was… illuminating. Many students who had submitted thoughtful, well-structured work could not explain basic choices in their own submission after two follow-up questions. Some could…
