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“To get real, personalized pushback on exactly what I said was a light bulb: oh, I hadn’t considered it that way. CAiSEY pushes back, pokes holes, brings up viewpoints I hadn’t considered, so students walk into class thinking far more comprehensively about the case. What was one-way has become two-way.”

“Columbia Business School has developed a voice-prompted “discussion agent” to pose questions about case studies and other topics in advance of class that’s now used in courses at 25 other B-schools, including those at the University of Virginia and at the University of California at Berkeley.”

“The risk with AI is the same: that the thing expanding our capacity to produce writing constrains our ability to put thought behind it. A world of more, but emptier, words. Software built to attack this problem—to work the way a speechwriter does—is, slowly, starting to appear. Dan Wang, a former professor of mine at Columbia Business School, watched ChatGPT hand his students easy answers and built a program that debates with them instead.”

Coverage of how schools can use AI to strengthen learning without outsourcing critical thinking, including CAiSEY's voice conversations for business case preparation.

“After a CAiSEY conversation, students come to class more committed, more confident, and more connected.”

“Jill Cohen, one of Caisey’s co-founders and a former Columbia Business School student, spoke on a panel in one of Wang’s classes last year. Multiple students came up afterward to tell her they love the app and have had so much fun with it, she said; that was mind-blowing. ‘I don’t ever remember loving homework,’ Cohen said. ‘What kid says they love homework?’”

“Students get pushback, and it is a really rich tool for discussion. It has had rave reviews.”

“CAiSEY is configured to have realistic, voice-based conversations with students about the course material, including interactions that [UVA Darden Professor Jared] Harris describes as “polite but adversarial,” meaning it is designed to challenge assumptions and analysis voiced by the student.”

“When a person has a conversation with an AI partner by voice, that's a personalized discussion—that's really different from having a conversation with 50, 60, or 70 other people.”