AI is the latest induced-urgent-panic that Big Tech has been imposing on schools. I've been in the school ed biz for 3 decades and it's wave after wave of this: "ideas", technology, curriculum, all pushed down w/ urgency. So much more to write here about how their pressures work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/business/schools-big-tech-google-microsoft.html