An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Earlier this summer, nearly 160,000 applicants took the entrance exam for UNAM, Mexico's largest university. For the first time, they did it completely remotely, using a "lockdown" browser and AI-powered webcam proctoring software, over several weeks from late May through early June. It was a disaster.

When exam results came in, they bore little resemblance to past results, especially at the top. 5 percent of test takers scored 100 or more on the 120-question UNAM test. 3 percent did so.