58,000 Students Must Retake Exam After AI Proctoring Completely Fails
An AI-proctored online exam went so wrong that 58,000 students are being forced to retake it. Top scores jumped fivefold compared to normal sessions — a clear sign of mass cheating.
An AI-proctored online exam failed so badly that 58,000 students are now required to retake it from scratch. The smoking gun: top scores were five times higher than in normal sessions — an unmistakable sign of widespread cheating.
AI proctoring — automated exam monitoring software with no live human supervisor — failed to detect students working with a second screen or an AI model. Tens of thousands of online programs around the world are betting on this kind of oversight, and this case makes clear the technology is nowhere near ready to replace a human examiner.
Source: arstechnica.com
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Evgenii Arsentev
PhD · Chief Executive Officer, digital health
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