Generative AI weakens the evidentiary relation between assessment artifacts and learner capacity, so institutions must assess the learner's accountable relation to AI-mediated work¶
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q1 i? When AI can produce polished artifacts, the artifact no longer reliably evidences understanding, and treating the product as proof of competence mistakes output preservation for capacity preservation. → Kai Yao 2026
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Kai Yao 2026¶
Kai Yao. (2026). When AI Does the Work, What Is Learning For? Post-Instrumental Learning and the Risk of Capacity Dissolution. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28041 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.28041
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Conceptual argument using formal educational assessment as the principal worked case. The article argues artifacts such as essays and proofs have long served as evidence of capacity, and that continuing to treat the product as proof is "output preservation for capacity preservation".
"Generative AI loosens this evidentiary relation. The institution can still receive the artifact, but the artifact no longer shows what it used to show."
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Generative AI weakens the evidentiary relation between assessment artifacts and learner capacity, so institutions must assess the learner's accountable relation to AI-mediated work |
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Generative AI weakens the evidentiary relation between assessment artifacts and learner capacity, so institutions must assess the learner's accountable relation to AI-mediated work |
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