To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought. This means they will lack the means to understand the world they live in or navigate it effectively.

But education, as we have organized it, was already drifting away from the cultivation of judgment, taste, historical sense, and imagination. AI didn't cause that drift, but made it impossible to ignore. And real learning has rarely been a mass phenomenon. It has always required a component of cognitive friction.

Journalists at ProPublica use AI to comb through thousands of documents, looking for critical moments to use in their exposés. DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicts protein structures with near-experimental level accuracy. Neuralink2 uses AI to give paralysed folks the blessing of mobility. Society is accelerating, and your students shouldn’t get left

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