William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he told me, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a sophomore at Stanford, finished high school all the way back in 2024. 'I have a younger sibling who is just graduating high school,' he said. 'Our educational experience has been vastly different, even though we're just two years apart.' By the time Liu graduated, ChatGPT was already causing chaos in the classroom. But the automation of school is intensifying. If at first teachers worried about students using chatbots to write essays, now new agentic tools such as Claude Code are allowing students to outsource even more of their work to the machines. Need to take an online math quiz' Write a biology-lab report' Create a PowerPoint presentation for history class' AI can do all of this and more. One high schooler recently told me that he struggles to think of a single assignment that AI wouldn't...
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