Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.
England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.
AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.
Why is that?
You’ll learn from it. (which is the purpose of universities, rather than grades or papers anyway)
In this case though, it’s more because the system clearly doesn’t work, so something has to be done eiher way.
They (schools) can’t fight AI forever. It will over burden them with slop no matter what they try. It’s futile to think that it can be detected, f.i. if the students put the AI in speech mode and writes down the answers in hand etc.
It’s better to rethink the entire purpose of what they’re trying to achieve. Hundreds of pages of written paper probably isn’t it to begin with.
They’re trying to educate: To get knowledge into the head of students. A written paper won’t really show what’s inside the head of the student regardless of it being written by the student, their parents, Indian fiver hirees, AI or simply paid to pass.
IMO the validition process has to be rethought, and it’s only good that AI has broken the system.
I agree that something has to be updated. Breaking it down is a good way to Understanding what you’re breaking down helps understand why and how to improve it. Especially something as complicated as an entire education system and the resulting tech relationship. On some level I agree, something needs overhauled. But it’s also impossible to anticipate future technological leaps that would do something like this again. We as a people need to be more measured in embracing tech so wholeheartedly. I don’t know that there is a blanket response to such things that every individual school can address. This is something national leadership should be addressing. The whole scale blind adoption of ‘AI’ is the cause, it’ll take more than college boards to address