AI in Education After 4 Years: Tutor Revolution or Learning Crisis?

Four years after ChatGPT’s debut, the episode contrasts optimistic claims that AI will personalize learning and reduce teacher workload with concerns that it fuels distraction, weakens thinking, undermines assessment, increases isolation, and sidelines teachers. Kane compares UK headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh’s view that children don’t work for screens and need relationships, authority, and character-building “productive struggle,” with MIT’s 2026 report warning that AI can let university ...