Cornell University instructors are increasing the use of oral exams and analog assignments as AI-written work proliferates, including requirements that students defend work face-to-face and complete writing tasks without digital tools. One example involves a biomedical engineering course using “oral defense” exams where students speak directly to an instructor. Separately, a Cornell German language instructor introduced a recurring “analog” exercise using manual typewriters, removing screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, and delete keys. The goal is to force students to produce content themselves while making the assessment process harder to outsource to generative AI. The reporting frames these approaches as part of a broader testing shift: older methods such as oral assessments are returning, while courses layer in structured, in-person evaluation to reduce opportunities for AI substitution.