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"Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to
teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty
lesson plans that internal company documentation find sometimes do “more harm
than good,” and scraping data from a variety of other online courses without
permission to train its own AI, according to former Alpha School employees and
internal company documents.
Alpha School has earned fawning coverage from
Fox News and
The New York
Times and received praise from Linda McMahon, the Trump-appointed Secretary of
Education, for using generative AI to chart the future of education. But
samples of poorly constructed AI-generated lessons that I have viewed present
students with unclear wording and illogical choices in multiple choice
questions.
“These questions not only fail to meet SAT standards but also fall short of the
quality we promise to deliver,” one employee wrote in the company’s Workflowy,
a company-wide note taking app where every employee can see what other
employees are working on, including their progress and thoughts on various
projects. “From a student’s perspective, when answer options don’t logically
fit the question, it feels like a betrayal of their effort to learn and
succeed. How can we expect students to trust our assessments when the very
questions meant to test their knowledge are flawed?”"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
