> Second, your scenario doesn't analyze another human and issue judgement, as the AI detection algorithms do.
> When a human is miscategorized as a bot, they could find themselves in front of academic fraud boards, skipped over by recruiters, placed in the spam folder, etc.
Is the problem here the algorithms or how people choose to use them?
There’s a big difference between treating the results of an AI algorithm as infallible, and treating it as just one piece of probabilistic evidence, to be combined with others, to produce a probabilistic conclusion.
“AI detector says AI wrote student’s essay, therefore it must be true, so let’s fail/expel/etc them” vs “AI detector says AI wrote student’s essay, plus I have other independent reasons to suspect that, so I’m going to investigate the matter further”
