There’s a version of this conversation that turns into the usual hand-wringing about screens and attention spans. This isn’t that.

Kyle, Jen, and Stuart are three educators who’ve watched technology reshape classrooms for the better part of two decades, and what we grapple with here is not whether AI belongs in education, but what it should actually be doing there.

The answer we keep circling back to is both practical and kind of liberating.

Let AI handle the part of teaching that quietly crushes teachers: the differentiation, the lesson planning, the endless gap between what each kid needs and what one human being can realistically deliver to twenty-five students in a day.

And let educators do the things only a human can do: be present, be consistent, teach kids how to look someone in the eye.

As always, this is a Friday night conversation that goes sideways in the best ways. And by the end, you might feel a little better about where this is all heading.