Marked Down

As a sort of prelude to the article below, I should point out that I do have an AI policy that boils down to “I use AI to revise, not to write”. But I do want to understand the limits and possibilities of what can be done and get a yardstick for both quality and reliability, so over the weekend, as the brand new Portuguese national exam system melted down, I gave my usual agent a set of conventional web search tools, a browser, and a clear set of directives: You are an investigative reporter. Research Portuguese news and government sites and prepare a dossier on the procurement, implementation and roll-out of the new national exam grading system. Gather interviews and press statements from government officials, teachers’ unions, schools, and political commentary. Verify those statements and gather substantive facts to build a comprehensive research dossier towards an Economist-style news article. Give me that article in Markdown and PDF format, written according to the Economist’s…