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Stephen Downes

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This is an example of a failed AI company that promised to deliver to a school division. Pretty much everything that could go wrong actually went wrong, as there were questions about invoices and subcontracting, about salaries and expenses, about potential misuse of student data, and of course about the investors who pulled the plug before the company could collect on its big contract. This is less of an AI story, I think, than it is a business story, but it's not hard to predict that we'll see a lot more of this in the near future.

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