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Alpha School promised a revolutionary education model powered by software instead of teachers, but WIRED's investigation reveals a high-pressure environment where children were surveilled, denied basic needs, and pushed to breakdowns over learning metrics. This cautionary tale exposes the dark side of applying Silicon Valley efficiency to childhood education.

University professors are raising alarms as students increasingly rely on AI tools like ChatGPT for coding assignments, potentially eroding critical thinking and core programming competencies. A coalition of 14 tech educators has issued an open letter demanding institutions rethink uncritical AI adoption to preserve academic integrity and long-term developer skills.

A University of Virginia professor conducted a semester-long experiment, allowing students to use ChatGPT for writing assignments while challenging them to decide if AI could replace human instruction. The results reveal surprising insights about AI's limitations in fostering creativity, the ethics of 'Centaur' collaboration, and why 68 out of 72 students ultimately voted to keep their professor.

AI writing detectors like GPTZero and OpenAI's Text Classifier frequently misidentify human-written classics such as the US Constitution as AI-generated, exposing critical flaws in their underlying technology. Experts reveal these tools rely on unreliable metrics like perplexity and burstiness, leading to high false positive rates that unfairly target students and non-native English speakers. As educators grapple with AI's role in academia, the push for detection may be a misguided solution to a deeper pedagogical challenge.