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Some teachers are using AI to grade their students, Anthropic finds - why that matters
The company's data shows activity that contradicts a stance many educators have taken on AI. Wasn't that inevitable?
To conduct this report, Anthropic analyzed anonymized conversations between Claude.ai, its chatbot, and Free and Pro accounts associated with higher education email addresses, and filtered for education-specific tasks from May and June of 2025. Anthropic added that the high percentage suggesting automated grading is concerning -- essentially expressing alarm at the idea that educators are handing such a sensitive part of teaching off to AI. "While it's not clear to what degree these AI-generated responses factor into the final grades and feedback, the interactions surfaced by our research do show some amount of delegation to Claude," Anthropic wrote.
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