ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What do you say to a principal who watches a chatbot rewrite her goals and then asks, "Why'd you hire me?"
In 2024, OpenAI trained its models to refine their thinking and catch their own mistakes, while schools kept grading that same behavior out of kids. MIT's 40-page report on AI named judgment as the answer and never said how to teach it, and a Grammarly survey found 55% of students feel they have no real guidance even at schools with an AI policy.
You'll hear Dario Amodei tell Anderson Cooper that his harshest critic was mostly right, and you'll hear how students in Community High School District 117 defend their own AI policy proposals to a committee of adults.
You'll leave with a quote-sorting exercise for your next staff meeting and one question that shows where students in your building make real decisions.
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