State exams are meant to test students’ aptitude and gauge their understanding of the curriculum. But what happens when the grading system fails? Texas found out the hard way when an AI-powered grading system led to rampant grading errors and a huge recount.
AI makes mistakes. This disclaimer is stamped on almost every query when you interact with the top frontier chatbots on the market. Yet society continues to trust AI with increasingly more important tasks. This time, Texas put it in charge of grading students on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams, and the results went as you might expect.
As people become increasingly more distrustful of AI, they’re more likely to question the results of anything that AI touches.
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The AI-powered grading system
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