Here on Decoder, we’ve talked a lot about generative AI, which is a very big idea that is causing quite a few problems. One thing we keep hearing about over and over again is that generative AI is causing a lot of problems in schools.

A lot of people out there, including many of the listeners of this show who email us, are worried about the obvious problem: students using ChatGPT to cheat on assignments — and yes, some students definitely do.

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But when our team poked at the story, we found that the issues with AI in education go a lot deeper, to the very philosophy of education itself.

The Decoder team talked to a lot of teachers

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