Students are getting genAI to do their homework.

(Source: "There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat" – WSJ 2025/03/15)

No surprise there. Professionals have been using genAI to do their jobs since the technology first became widely available 2021/2022'ish.

For me, the real story is that students have found a use case where genAI actually performs well!

I won't get into the debate of whether it's OK for students to use genAI for coursework.

I will simply share two points that students, parents, and teachers in favor of AI are likely to raise when that debate takes place:

• plenty of professionals use genAI to do their job (see: the number of "ChatGPT does my job" articles from a couple years back)
• there are companies trying to outsource entire job functions to AI