Schools trying to prevent their students from using AI are fighting a rear-guard action. The detection tools will never be reliable, and the conflict between at

Schools trying to prevent their students from using AI are fighting a rear-guard action. The detection tools will never be reliable, and the conflict between attempts to ban AI use in educational settings and the widespread use of AI in the real world will become increasingly apparent. Just yesterday, Google added AI features to my Workspace account. Now, when I open a Google Doc, a handy menu appears offering to change the tone of the text, lengthen or shorten it, convert it to bullet points, or follow my custom prompt. When I’ve asked it to correct text that contains grammatical and spelling errors, it cleans up the mistakes while making only minor changes to the wording. It will also write a new text from scratch—no need to cut and paste from Gemini or ChatGPT. It won’t be easy, but educators will just have to figure out new methods of teaching and evaluation that assume that students have powerful AI tools available at all times.