Last September, David Banks closed his final state-of-our-schools address as chancellor by embracing a once-taboo topic in public education. "AI can analyze in real time all the work our children are doing in school," Banks said. Less than a year later, AI is all over the place, and keeping it out of classrooms is unrealistic, if not impossible. That's why schools like United Charter High School for the Humanities II in the Bronx have decided that embracing the technology is the only way to safely corral it.
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