Turkey's Education Ministry to Use AI-Generated Exam Questions, Raising Fairness Concerns

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Turkey's Ministry of National Education will implement an AI-supported exam system in middle and high schools from 2026-2027, with most questions generated by AI. Educators warn this could exacerbate educational inequalities and undermine teacher autonomy, as students from diverse backgrounds will face uniform, AI-generated assessments.[AI generated]

Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?

The event involves the planned use of an AI system in educational assessment, specifically in exam question generation and evaluation. Since the system is not yet deployed and no harm has occurred, but there are plausible concerns about potential future harm such as unfair evaluation or exacerbation of educational inequalities, this qualifies as an AI Hazard. The article does not report any realized harm or incident, nor does it focus on responses or updates to past incidents, so it is not an AI Incident or Complementary Information. It is also not a Beneficial Use since the AI is part of the system potentially causing harm rather than solely mitigating external harm. Therefore, the classification is AI Hazard.[AI generated]
AI principles
FairnessDemocracy & human autonomy

Industries
Education and training

Affected stakeholders
Children

Harm types
Human or fundamental rights

AI system task:
Content generation


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