Task prompt
Read the two texts below. Write an essay that summarises and evaluates their key points. Express the ideas in your own words as far as possible and include your own views on the issue. Write 240–280 words.
Word limit: 280 words
"Artificial Intelligence and Professional Judgement" is a C2 Proficiency Writing practice task (essay). Cambridge assesses content, communicative achievement, organisation and language on a scale from 0 to 5 per criterion. Plan before you write: identify the target reader, the required register and the number of points you must address. At C2, examiners expect sophisticated vocabulary used accurately, varied sentence structures and clear paragraphing.
Plan the essay before writing, address every prompt point, keep the expected register, respect the word limit, and use feedback to improve content, organisation, grammar range, and vocabulary precision.
Read the two texts below. Write an essay that summarises and evaluates their key points. Express the ideas in your own words as far as possible and include your own views on the issue. Write 240–280 words.
Word limit: 280 words
Artificial intelligence can reduce routine workloads and make specialised knowledge more widely available. In medicine, education and public administration, well-designed systems may identify patterns that busy professionals overlook and provide quicker access to relevant information. This need not mean replacing human expertise. Used as a tool for checking, comparing and forecasting, automated systems can free people to spend more time on interpretation, empathy and difficult decisions that cannot be reduced to a calculation. The best systems should support deliberation, not create an illusion that complex social questions have one technically correct answer.
The authority of an automated recommendation can make human judgement weaker rather than better. Users may accept an output because it appears objective, even when the data behind it are incomplete or biased. Responsibility also becomes unclear when an apparently neutral system produces a harmful result. Professional decision-makers should understand enough about the tools they use to question them, explain their conclusions and override them where necessary. Efficiency is valuable, but it should not become an excuse for avoiding accountability. Transparency about limits, data and error is necessary if people affected by decisions are to challenge them fairly.