Comment Strawman / Ragebait (Score 2) 98
The Professor in question barely mentioned AI. Instead The Guardian ran a hit-piece on her that doesn't even properly engage with her points until more than halfway through.
This is the only mention of AI in the whole piece:
General learning loss would lower the entire distribution. It would not hollow out the middle while piling students up at exactly zero. Something else appears to be compounding the problem. Whatever the mix of causes, the problems at UC accelerated precisely when the system discarded the one standardized baseline it once had. Without standardized tests, admissions officers are flying blind, especially as grade inflation has made transcripts a weaker indicator of readiness, and artificial intelligence has made admissions essays a weaker signal of students’ work.
And as The Guardian article says "Stankova, in her email, said “the issue of how AI was used is orthogonal to and a distraction from the thousands of hours our team has put into the initiative” of reinstating standardized tests in admission."