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The Man Who Built the Digital Classroom Warns About Its Next Phase
Blackboard's co-founder is warning that AI grading creates a vicious cycle — and his warning is arriving as a YouTube tutorial.
Matthew Pittinsky built the infrastructure that moved academic life onto networked platforms — and this week he used one of those platforms to warn that the next wave of automation will hollow out what the first wave was supposed to support [14]. His argument is specific: AI grading does not merely automate evaluation, it creates the conditions for a feedback loop in which AI-assisted cheating escalates to match AI-assisted detection, and the loop has no natural exit. The format of the warning — a YouTube creator video — is not…