Description: A predictive text malfunction allegedly compromised the integrity of the NAPLAN writing exam at two Sydney schools, Waverley College and Kambala, in that it allowed students to access AI-driven text suggestions. Caused by a technical oversight, this incident led to affected students being required to retake the test.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Apple developed an AI system deployed by NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) , Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) , Waverley College (Sydney, Australia) and Kambala (Sydney, Australia), which harmed Waverley College (Sydney, Australia) students , Waverley College (Sydney, Australia) teachers , Kambala (Sydney, Australia) students and Kambala (Sydney, Australia) teachers.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Apple Predictive Text , Apple Spellcheck AI and NAPLAN online testing system
Incident Stats
Incident ID
993
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-03-12
Editors
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Children at two Sydney schools have been forced to resit their NAPLAN writing exams due to a technical issue which meant they were able to access predictive text and spellcheck.
A teacher at Kambala in Rose Bay and students at Waverley real…
Students at two Sydney schools were required to resit their NAPLAN writing exams after a technical glitch enabled predictive text and spellcheck during the test.
Year 5 students at Waverley College and Kambala were affected, with Waverley …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.