When AI Chases Test Scores, What Gets Left Behind?
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When schools deploy AI systems solely focused on raising test scores, the systems may optimize narrowly for that metric while neglecting broader educational goals like critical thinking and student wellbeing. David Ross applies AI alignment theory and Goodhart's Law to examine how single-metric optimization in education can produce counterproductive outcomes, drawing parallels to persistent stagnation in national assessment data.
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What happens when a school system delegates student achievement to an AI system with a single directive: raise test scores? In this provocative new piece, David Ross draws on AI alignment theory, Goodhart's Law, and a decade of stagnant NAEP data to map the s…
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