Synopsis
Responding to newspaper calls for tighter controls on generative-AI in senior-school “take-home” tasks, Leon Furze argues that the real culprit is the assessment format itself, not ChatGPT. The article shows that home-based essays and projects have long privileged students with money, tutors or stable study spaces, while disadvantaging those with caring duties, disruptive households or limited technology access—long before large-language models entered classrooms.

Originally published at: https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/15/take-home-assessments-ai-is-not-the-problem/

Links
https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/15/take-home-assessments-ai-is-not-the-problem/
https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/rise-of-ai-risks-undermining-hsc-fairness-20250613-p5m78c.html
https://www.theage.com.au/link/follow-20170101-p5l1vb
https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/hours-of-work-breaks-and-rosters/right-to-disconnect
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray/
https://leonfurze.com/2024/03/27/the-ai-assessment-scale-update-and-pilot-study/

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