Student Vinny Dahl on AI detection failures and geographic education access
Vinny Dahl, a 15-year-old sophomore, testifies about Intro 684 and geographic barriers to education, then demonstrates how AI detection tools fail by showing a ChatGPT paragraph that bypasses detectors and Chancellor Samuels' speech flagged as 40% AI. He argues DOE cannot effectively regulate AI and detection will harm innocent students.
Good afternoon.
My name is Vinny Dahl and I'm 15 and I'm a sophomore at Queenside School for the Sciences.
Today I come here to talk about two things.
Well, AI is part of it, but first I want to talk about introduction 684-2026 about geographic location and how it affects students.
First of all,
Education and the quality of education is not the only thing that affects students.
Depending on how far they live away from schools, it affects on how well or how much education they get.
If they cannot come to school on time because of the MTA, they cannot receive a quality education.
These are the omni-cards we are provided.
When these fail, students cannot receive equitable education.
Most students, especially with those with disabilities or special education, often live further away from their schools or often receive more struggles in getting to their schools.
Now, this...
Inequality can lead to a plethora of issues.
Now, I want to reserve the rest of my time to talk about AI.
Artificial intelligence is not as easy or as simple as we are portraying it as.
Part of the issue is how easy or how undetectable AI can be.
There is no regulation the DOE can put to ban AI in schools.
This is a chat GBT paragraph.
I can't humanize it.
There's softwares that can help humanize it, which turns a GBT version to something that cannot get flagged by detectors, which teachers often use.
This is the result after I humanized it.
Now, it also, detectors historically does not work and nothing can work.
This, quickly, this is a speech from Kamar Samuels.
This is it getting flagged for 40% AI.
There's no way the DOE can regulate AI.
And if it does regulate AI, it will eventually affect innocent students who didn't use AI.
That'll be all.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You have a very famous alum from the school you go to.
His name is Alejandro Carvajal.
He's sitting right next to me.
We're getting a new building.
I heard.
Congratulations.
Yes, thank you.
That was all him.
I don't know if you noticed.
He's building it.
With AI.
Thank you so much for...
No, he's not.
I'm kidding.
Thank you so much for your testimony today.
Thank you.
On the next panel, and as always, if I mispronounce your name, I apologize in advance.
You will correct me for the record.
Tania Nasser-Frederick, Edgar Trout.
Travis Prox.