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Wed Nov 10

Unis are using artificial intelligence to keep students sitting exams honest. But this creates its own problems

Written by: Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne

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