In a late-night filing, the state bar asked the California Supreme Court on Tuesday to reduce the raw score needed to pass the February bar exam, acknowledging that test takers experienced “unacceptable technological issues.”
The 65-page petition did not address key issues, however, about the bar’s use of generative artificial intelligence to craft some test questions, even after the high court demanded answers last week.
For the first time, the bar acknowledged publicly that it used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to develop questions, not just for the February exam but on an experimental test administered in November. Fourteen of the 49 questions on the practice exam were developed using AI, according to the petition. Eleven of those 14 questions were used again on the February bar exam.