AI is exacerbating a feeling that since the pandemic, the classroom dynamic has grown transactional.

William Liang was sitting in chemistry class one day last spring, listening to a teacher deliver a lecture on “responsible AI use,” when he suddenly realized what his teachers are up against.

The talk was about a big, take-home essay, and Liang, then a sophomore at a Bay Area high school, recalled that it covered the basics: the rubric for grading as well as suggestions for how to use generative AI to keep students honest: They should use it as a “thinking partner” and brainstorming tool.

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