Academics and AI marking: a welcome aid for overworked staff or a sloppy shortcut?

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

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Armin Alimardani has blue hair, is fresh faced, wears a smart watch and describes himself as “a tech enthusiast”.

He is an unlikely sentinel, perhaps, to warn that a drift towards academics using generative artificial intelligence to help mark students assignments could pose an existential threat to higher education.

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