KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 -- Malaysia's first astrophysicist, Tan Sri Dr Mazlan Othman, believes artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make students better thinkers, but she emphasises that schools must change how they assess students.

Rather than expecting students to memorise and regurgitate answers, Mazlan suggests teachers should evaluate how creatively students prompt AI tools.

"The skill is in the questioning - teachers should assess students by the kind of questions they ask AI tools," she told Malay Mail in a recent interview.

"We are far too focused on asking them to find solutions to equations or problems that we give them. Education must aim to let students think for themselves," she added.

Drawing from her astrophys...