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I can't remember the keyword to look it up, but there's a problem of statistics you run into with stuff like terrorism detection algorithms

If we have 300M people in the US and only 1k terrorists, then you need 99.9999% accuracy before you start getting more true positives than false positives. If you use this in a classroom where no one is actually using AI you'll get false positives, and in a class where the usage is average you'll still get more false positives than true ones, which makes the test do more harm than good unless it's just a reason to look into it more - and the teacher is presumably already reading the text so if that doesn't help than this surely won't







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