Is AI ready to pass the philosophy bac? Nothing is less certain

Even if it means driving open doors from the outset, let us make the obvious observation that AI is today everywhere. Including in teaching, where many students (or even teachers …) use artificial intelligence to support them in their homework and other controls. It is in this context where the use of this tool is today democratized (left to make us a little more stupid…) that the editorial staff of France 3 Hauts-de-France decided to have an experience as part of the 2025 philosophy bac.

When AI tries to pass the philosophy bac

To a generative artificial intelligence whose identity is not revealed (Chatgpt? Copilot? Gemini?), The editorial staff asked to respond to one of the proposed subjects: “Is the truth always convincing?” For this, the prompt asked the AI ​​to write as she would for a high school student who would seek to obtain the best note.

Other instructions have been given, in particular on the form that the dissertation should take, such as the presence of three parts and examples sourced.

Once the editorial staff is finished, it was submitted to a teacher of high school philosophy. Important detail, the latter was warned upstream that he was correcting an AI and not a human being. Too bad, not having this bias would perhaps increase the interest of the process.

The objective of this experience: to know if an artificial intelligence is capable of making a job at least as qualitative as a student of terminal having followed a year of teachings of philosophy.

Blow for AI

Result ? 8/10. In question mainly, the fact that the plan is too visible in the result generated. Then the initial subject was distorted in “Is the truth enough to convince?“The teacher then indicates that”The plan is interesting and closer to the subject, but nothing justifies it.“Finally, the meaning of the transitions of artificial intelligence is not good.

For the professor, writing by IA is obvious because “A student could not have done this because a student capable of doing this would have thought of everything that lacks and would have done something much better!“If this example alone is not enough to make it completely redoubled, there remains a good indicator that alone should not be used lightly for everything, and especially anything.