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AI Detection Is the Wrong Question for Writing Education
A Bluesky post reframes the AI-in-education debate: detection tools don't solve the writing problem — they replace it with a surveillance problem.
Detection-first policies encode a particular theory of the problem: that students are using AI to circumvent an otherwise sound assessment structure. The Bluesky post circulating this week [20] challenges that theory at its foundation — if the writing task was designed to produce thought through effort, and AI collapses that effort, then the problem is not that students found a shortcut but that the shortcut exposed how little the assignment's design depended on genuine cognitive labor. Detection tools leave the assignment unchanged and add a surveillance layer on top. That…