"Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:" Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Summary
A detailed investigative piece examining Alpha School, an AI driven private K-12 institution, which reportedly relies heavily on AI to generate lessons and monitor student activity. The report describes AI generated materials that can be incoherent or fail to meet standard educational expectations, and documents internal concerns about the quality and accuracy of AI tutors. It also outlines how the school reportedly scrapes content from third party platforms and may use data from other online courses to train its own AI tools, raising questions about licensing and terms of use.