Denmark made oral defense mandatory for every at-home written exam, effective immediately.

The Ministry of Education announced August 7 that all upper-secondary students must verbally defend written work produced at home, in force immediately, covering ~9,000 students in the two-year Higher Preparatory Examination program (CNN). The package also asks schools to monitor student screens during exams, deploy a content-filtering firewall, require explicit AI-use declarations on major assignments, and keep oral-exam preparation AI-free. Three school organizations representing leaders, teachers, and students welcomed it but called it insufficient given the pace of the technology. 582 points and 258 comments on HN. Notable because it's the first national-level response that gives up on detection entirely and changes the assessment instead. Detection was always going to lose.