AI in schools: Should artificial intelligence be used to grade? [Video]

HOUSTON — Each school year, the rise of technology has changed the way students learn. Now, it’s also changing how their work is scored.

“As far as grading goes, I think that is more complicated given the abilities of the AI systems we have now,” said University of Houston assistant law professor Peter Salib.

Salib, an artificial intelligence expert, believes there are pros and cons with implementing AI into grading and that it shouldn’t be the only method used to determine grades.

“In my experience, most of the language models that are publicly available are not sufficiently reliable that I would be comfortable relying on them to grade multiple choice tests,” Salib said. “For things like essays, I also, in my experience, the systems are not …