Calling it now, the AI grader will mark 0 for black and latino students at a higher rate than white students, and this will have life altering consequences for these students because they never get a fair regrade by a human.

In the article they already admit as much, that the grader marks 0 for anything it doesn’t understand, such as slang.

This is a “stop ship” issue if they cared about the students half as much as they’re excited about saving money.

Education in Texas is shit already, they do not need this

Texas isn’t really interested in educating their population.

Someone needs to name their kid the LLM version of little Bobby Tables

While I’m sure this will flop because it’s Texas, not all NLPs are LLMs.

bruh i’m literally taking the staar tomorrow now i hate it even more