who doesn’t want to take over

that sounds exactly like Catholic church :D

so people are buying tickets to fill a stadium and watch a screen there? seems like there should be easier way to organize that…

Then the student could just ask the AI to simulate a thesis defense and learn answers to the most likely questions.

while my opinion of economy as a field is not very high, i still have high enough opinion of any teacher to believe they do outperform shitty ai…

well, not sure if it works the same everywhere in the world, but here, you first write the graduation thesis and then you have to publicly defend it.

if the defense committee (or is it an attack committee, since it is the student who is on defense? :D) can’t ask questions in a way to find out whether the student actually wrote the paper and understands the topic, then what fucking pseudo-scientific field is that? (and the answer indeed is - it is economics 😂)

it is not just the US… the VSE - Prague’s university of economics and business has decided to abandon graduation theses, because it is supposedly “impossible to verify” whether they were written by student or AI, and replaced them with “hands-on” graduation project)

Just be happy that the jpg is not embedded in docx