"Can I Wear Horn-Rimmed Glasses?"... High Alert Over 'AI Glasses' Ahead of CSAT

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With the college entrance exam scheduled for next month, preventing cheating using artificial intelligence-enabled smart glasses has become a major task for education authorities. Teachers who will supervise the test venues, as well as test-takers who wear glasses, are on high alert.

Reported by Jo Yoon-ha.

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I will try on all four of these glasses starting now. Can you tell with the naked eye which one of these is an AI glasses?

The correct answers are numbers 2 and 4. In particular, number 2 has thin frames and no visible camera lens, making it difficult to immediately distinguish it as AI glasses.

The CSAT manual states that if supervisors spot a test-taker suspected of wearing AI glasses, they should inspect and verify them based on the key features of smart glasses.

However, this is a daunting task for supervisors who have never actually seen AI glasses in person.

[CSAT Supervisor : I have never seen them (AI glasses) even once. I've only seen them on the news, videos, or YouTube, but never in real life. If they look like that, I might miss them....]

Perfume isn't even sprayed in the testing rooms for fear of harming the test-takers, and supervisors are also worried that their gaze might affect the examinees' performance.

[CSAT Supervisor : If someone is wearing thick horn-rimmed glasses, I have to go over and look closely to see, 'Are these AI glasses?' But the very act of me getting close and scrutinizing that student can be a burden to them....]

According to a survey conducted by a teachers' organization of some 2,700 teachers, 82% responded that "it is difficult to identify whether smart glasses are being worn using the current supervision procedures alone."

Even if a metal detector is used, both AI glasses and regular glasses trigger the exact same warning sound.

Test-takers who wear horn-rimmed glasses are just as worried.

[Cho Hong-yoon / High School Senior : I had some worries like, 'Will the supervisors inspect these glasses?' Since AI glasses all look like this. I've even thought, 'Should I switch to thin frames, or should I switch to rimless glasses altogether?']

The Ministry of Education plans to announce measures soon regarding cheating using AI glasses.

(Video by Kim Hak-mo and Kim Seung-tae | Video Editing by Jang Hyun-ki)
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