The Problem With AI Detection in Schools

What the research says and why it means a policy shift is overdue

https://aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/ai-detectors-are-failing-our-students

“A recent study, AI Writing Detectors Are Ineffective, Unreliable, and Harmful by Louie Giray, brings together a growing body of evidence and makes a clear argument:

AI writing detectors are not reliable enough to be used in educational decision-making, and using them that way risks real harm to students.

This is not theoretical.

One widely cited study found that AI detectors falsely identified a majority of essays written by non-native English speakers as AI-generated. That is not a margin of error. That is a systemic failure.”