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Guarding the Gaokao — AI Exam-Hall Patrols and an Industry-Wide Chatbot Freeze

China · Guangzhou · See the China profile

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Guangdong, Hainan and Shandong deployed AI 'intelligent patrol' cameras across Gaokao exam halls, while Alibaba, Tencent and Moonshot AI froze chatbot photo-recognition during China's 13.4-million-student exam to stop students photographing papers for answers.

13.42 million
Students registered for Gaokao (2024)
Guarding the Gaokao — AI Exam-Hall Patrols and an Industry-Wide Chatbot Freeze

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Guangdong Provincial Department of Education; Alibaba (Qwen), Tencent (Yuanbao), Moonshot AI (Kimi)
Period
2024–2025 (annual June exam window)
Keywords
K-12 assessment, exam security, AI industry governance

Context

China's Gaokao college-entrance exam drew a record 13.42 million students in 2024. To guard against cheating, Guangdong, Hainan and Shandong deployed camera-based 'intelligent patrol' systems in examination and confidential rooms.

Results

During the 2025 exam window, Alibaba's Qwen and Tencent's Yuanbao chatbots disabled photo-recognition features nationwide during exam hours, and Moonshot AI's Kimi did the same, while ByteDance's Doubao kept photo recognition active but flagged exam-paper images as non-compliant.

Conclusions

No independent effectiveness data (e.g., change in confirmed cheating incidents) has been published for either the camera surveillance or the chatbot freezes, and camera-based surveillance raises student-privacy questions not publicly addressed in available reporting.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
provincial education department surveillance operators

Conditions for success

  • coordinated action between state education authorities and private AI vendors around a single high-stakes event

Common failure modes

  • no independent effectiveness data published; privacy questions raised by camera surveillance unaddressed

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