One thing that's not sufficiently recognized is that people - and kids especially - are always learning, and they learn from everything. This means that they're learning a lot from the non-curricular aspects of education, including in this case AI-based exam proctoring. Like, for example, the AI that basically told a student to stop slouching; "Unsettled, she began to stare more robotically at her screen." Clive Thompson argues that it sets a scary civic precedent. "We are indoctrinating our youth to think that this is normal, says Lindsay Oliver, activism project manager at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Students trained to accept digital surveillance may well be less likely to rebel against spyware deployed by their bosses at work or by abusive partners." We don't know if that's what they're actually learning, exactly - they might be learning that society doesn't trust them, or any number of things. But that's the problem. Via Aaron Davis.
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