AI School Alpha Made Kids Wear Heart Monitors in Class While AI Critiques of Their Work Played
benjaminjriley · x · 2026-09-09
Futurism covers Benjamin Riley's investigation into Alpha School, a private K-12 chain selling an "AI teaching model." Its eight-week high-school boot camp resembles hazing: students must create a fresh X account, get 100 organic followers, pay for X Premium, and post substantive replies to big accounts ("'Great post' replies don't count"). Most bizarre: kids wore heart monitors in front of the class while critiques of their work played. Riley calls it "an absence of any moral compass at all."
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