The parents of a Massachusetts high school student who used artificial intelligence for a social studies project have filed a lawsuit against his teachers and the school after their son received a “D.”
Jennifer Harris, along with her husband, Dale, wrote in their lawsuit as plaintiffs: “She is accused of fraud, it was not fraud, because there is no law against the use of artificial intelligence guides.”
The lawsuit claims their son will “suffer imminent irreparable harm” because of a grade his parents say kept him out of the National Honor Society, which they claim threatens his standing at the nation’s top universities.
“So our discussion with the school was, can you punish him with a 59 instead of a 53 so he can get a negative B,” Harris told the news station. He is applying to top schools. He is applying to Stanford and MIT. “They see a D on his record and throw his application in the trash.”
Harris said the school “basically punished him for a law that doesn’t exist,” and said the school’s code of conduct handbook never mentioned the use of artificial intelligence in projects until their son was disciplined.
While the school called it plagiarism, the parents and their attorney disagree.
Peter Farrell, who is representing the family, said: “There is a body of information that says AI is not plagiarism.”
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