Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School
Published: (February 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM EST)
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Source: Hacker News
Source: Hacker News
Summary
Alpha School, an “AI‑powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI‑generating faulty lesson plans that internal company documentation finds sometimes do “more harm than good,” and scraping data from a variety of other online courses without permission to train its own AI, according to former Alpha School employees and internal company documents.