How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Misused To Harm Students

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but today's AI is not as advanced as robo-graders want you to think. If someone you love depends on the SATs or GREs this should trouble you. A recent article by NPR discussed the use of computers to robo-grade essays in exams such as the SAT and GRE. Developers interviewed in the article claim that "computers are already doing jobs as complicated and as fraught as driving cars, detecting cancer, and carrying on conversations, they can certainly handle grading students' essays." According to AI researcher and Assistant Professor Zack Lipton at Carnegie Mellon University, "machine learning can find complex patterns, but all it's doing is discovering associations in the data. For a model to output reasonably correlated predictions, it will use whatever associations it can discover."