The (Dystopian) Future of Grading - Will Richardson

We call it "AI-assisted grading," where machines assist humans in grading consistently and quickly. For many questions, Gradescope's AI will be able to learn how to grade all student submissions from a small number of answers graded by the instructor, such that an instructor would only have to grade about ten answers out of a hundred submissions. For known questions, Gradescope's AI will be able to grade instantly, without any human input. This seems to be the evolving narrative of man and machine, collaborating together for the greater good, software and robots becoming "partners" in work rather than usurpers of it. And for the time stressed teacher or teaching assistant, having to "grade" ten essays instead of hundreds is certainly appealing.