GoKawiilAlpha School's AI tutoring reportedly relies on offshore call-center workers, not AI
Education writer Benjamin Riley's reporting alleges that Alpha School, a $75,000-a-year private school network marketed around AI tutoring, has students monitored via laptop webcams and heart-rate monitors, with wrong answers reviewed on Zoom calls by workers reportedly based in India rather than by AI systems. Former students describe feeling surveilled like lab subjects, and academic Matt Seybold has linked the practice to what he calls AI's 'Mechanical Turk problem,' where human labor from the Global South stands in for automated systems.