The controversial Alpha School, an AI-powered private school, has been under scrutiny for its use of AI in education. Leaked documents reveal that the school's AI generates faulty lessons, sometimes doing more harm than good. The school, which costs up to $65,000 a year, has been praised by the Trump administration and Fox News for its use of generative AI, but internal company documentation shows that the AI-generated lessons are of poor quality and do not meet SAT standards. Former employees and students have reported that the school's reliance on AI and constant monitoring of students' activities is causing anxiety and does not always provide the quality of education promised. The school's '2 Hour Learning' philosophy, which promises to give students their required education in just two hours, has been called into question, with former employees stating that students often have to study more than two hours a day and that the AI products are not working as advertised. The school has also been accused of scraping data from other online courses without permission to train its AI, and of using surveillance software to monitor students' activities, raising concerns about privacy and ethical use of AI in education.
