JoDX
As a teacher, I say again: AI has NEVER felt like something I ‘participate’ in — it has always felt like something ‘happening’ to me and my students and to schools everywhere. This lack of choice has been intentional from the get-go, supporting the AI inevitability narrative. Yet if any outside power had without warning eviscerated our educational systems in the way this tech has, it would rightly have been perceived as an enemy or terrorist attack of terrifyingly effective proportions. As Stiegler pointed out years ago, Silicon Valley regularly act as the terrorists in our midst — yet they are embraced and still unregulated, all these years later. It makes you wonder what we would act to protect if not our children’s minds.
From a comment on The Atantic website responding to the article
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-inflection-point-trump-china/687202/
One can only wonder that this quote is the equivalent of the canary in a coal mine. Educators are always on the front lines of social changes and the impacts of learning and technology. JoDX: thank you for your insights.