I get asked, by students and colleagues alike, if I want to go back to teaching Social Studies (or like… any ‘real’ class) again after five years of being out of it. And I do wonder if maybe it would be a nice change of pace from people burning cookies all day or whipping each other in the ass with towels.

Then I hear about how AI is running amok in schools (or read the article that interview was based on) and I just think “well, maybe cookies aren’t so bad!”

Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students’ essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one.

Sound fun.