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02/02/2026 | Press release | Archived content

TechSonar: A new era of evaluation = automated proctoring

2 February 2026
Lisa Marie Scholten & Xabier Lareo

What happens when exams are no longer overseen by people but by our webcams and microphones? Who truly benefits from automated proctoring and who is placed at greater risk by bias, surveillance or data misuse? How does outsourcing exam integrity to AI reshape fairness and accessibility? Xabier Lareo joins us to discuss how to balance exam integrity and efficiency with fundamental rights to data protection and privacy.

This episode is one of a series observing 6 AI trends from the TechSonar 2025-2026: covering agentic AI, AI companions, automated proctoring, AI-driven personalised learning, coding assistants, and confidential computing. Better tune in.

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