Dinowitz questions DOE on AI detection tools and false positives

What is the DOE's position on AI detection tools given documented false positive rates that disproportionately flag multilingual learners and students with disabilities?

Can you repeat your question?

Yeah.

Does the DOE have, what is the DOE's position on the AI detection tools given documented false positive rates that disproportionately flag multilingual learners and students with disabilities?

Does the DOE have an approved AI detection tool or policy regarding AI detection tools?

AI detection tools, Scott?

Thank you.

You could just stay.

Just stay, Scott.

We should pull up 13 more chairs.

I know.

Fair enough.

We do not have any AI detection tools.

That I would be aware of that we have?

That are detecting if a child...

Uses AI to write questions, answer questions, write papers.

I think I'm getting tripped up on your question around students with disabilities and multilingual learners.

The detection tools creating false positives saying particularly students with disabilities or multilingual learners are being flagged disproportionately as using AI with false positives, meaning

accusing a student with an IEP or multilingual learner of using AI when it has not been detected properly.

But it sounds like the DOE does not, according to your testimony, doesn't utilize AI detection software or have any AI detection software vendors approved.

Correct.

But you do have plagiarism detection tools.

Those have been around for many years, where students upload their papers, and it detects for plagiarism, correct?

Yes, I am aware of plagiarism detection tools.

Okay.

So you don't have any such detectors approved for use in disciplinary or academic integrity hearings?

I mean, you know, even before AI, we have very, you know, high standards for academic integrity.

We are not using a detection tool, but we want to make sure that our

teachers are very closely connected to their students and they understand that this is their product or not their product and how to make sure that the students are, you know, responding in a way that is theirs and not, but in other words.

I mean, it sounds, I'm sorry to interrupt.

It just sounds to me like you're talking as if it's 2015.

You're talking in terms of like, you know, good teaching.

But we are in a completely different world with the advent of AI.

And tomorrow it's going to be completely different.

And in two months, it's going to be astoundingly different.