[JoeJonathan]

A lot of people in this thread are talking about how they did in-person exams, handwritten problem sets in class, etc. This kind of thing is more challenging in the humanities, where the research paper is kind of our bread and butter. A lot of us have since turned to different kinds of assignments, but I am not ready to forego research papers in favor of blue book exams. I think there's some value in having to develop and sustain an argument in conversation with some body of literature (scholarly or otherwise), and that is not easily to replicate with in-person writing, at least at the undergrad level. (Doctoral candidates do this kind of thing all the time in qualifying exams, but that's after years of graduate school and fresh off doing nothing but reading 100+ books over the course of a few months.)

[another-dave]

My undergrad was in humanities - we had multiple essays to submit throughout the year but they only counted for ~10% of the final grade, with the rest through an in person exam paper.

It was just expected that you had a grasp of the literature enough that you could argue off-the-cuff in the exam setting, and then you were given leeway if you didn't have exact Harvard style notations to exact date/titles of referenced material.

[joe_the_user]

It's easy to imagine a paper/exam combo.

Student turn-in a mid-term paper. A professor chooses a certain number of points from the mid-term paper and asks for explanations of these in long-hand. Pulling questions this way doesn't seem like it would take more time than a thorough reading of the text.

Oh, but paper reading has been delegated to a drudge you wouldn't trust with pulling question, oh how inconvenient. Which is to say the problems AI introduces to education are strongly related to much of work already being made mindless before AI appeared.

Doctoral candidates do this kind of thing all the time in qualifying exams, but that's after years of graduate school and fresh off doing nothing but reading 100+ books over the course of a few months.

No, High school students can do this. Well, they get impelled to do this. They can't do this now but that's a testament to current education.

[make3]

I'm not sure of if typewriters help for assignments. People will just rewrite what the AI wrote

[jerf]

That's the first thing that happens.

The next thing that happens is a befuddled "Ask HN: Why Do All The Daisy Wheel Printers On Ebay Suddenly Cost Thousands Of Dollars?".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing

You can sometimes locally win an arms race by doing something really exotic that isn't worth the work to defeat, but this is definitely not a strategy that works if everyone adopts it.