{"id":431128,"date":"2026-02-17T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431128\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:17:07","slug":"students-are-being-treated-like-guinea-pigs-inside-an-ai-powered-private-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431128\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:&#8217; Inside an AI-Powered Private School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha School, an \u201cAI-powered private school\u201d that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal company documentation find sometimes do \u201cmore harm than good,\u201d and scraping data from a variety of other online courses without permission to train its own AI, according to former Alpha School employees and internal company documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpha School, an \u201cAI-powered private school\u201d that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-431128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}