AI in the Assessor's Chair

Four new studies show generative AI can write exam questions, mark answers and appraise medical education research, but matching expert judgement still falls short of trustworthy judgement.

For the last three years, most of our conversation about AI in medical education has treated the technology as something students use, or something we teach them about. The unspoken assumption underneath our policies, and underneath a fair amount of our worry, has been that the human stays in the assessor’s chair. We set the questions, we mark the answe…