A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.

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0:00.0	Well, Casey, today we've got a very special back-to-school episode where we're going to talk about AI and education.
0:07.4	Oh, I thought we were going to start school over from scratch like Billy Madison.
0:11.9	No, that would be fun, though.
0:13.7	But this is roughly the year 3 BCE in the world of education.
0:19.5	By that, I mean before before chat chippy T existed.
0:22.9	How do you like that?
0:24.1	Wait, we're now three years before chat chpt existed?
0:26.6	God damn it.
0:29.5	Somebody needs to do his math homework.
0:33.3	God.
0:35.9	That one sounded great in my head.
0:37.8	Yeah, I bet.
0:38.8	That was a real banger.
0:46.2	I'm Kevin Rus, a tech columnist at the New York Times.
0:48.7	I'm Casey Newton from Platform.
0:50.2	And this is hard for.
0:51.3	This week, it's our back-to-school episode.
0:53.8	Big thoughts on how AI is changing classrooms from K-12 to college,
0:58.2	featuring interviews with Alpha School co-founder McKenzie Price
1:01.3	and Princeton Professor D. Graham Burnett.
1:04.1	Plus, students weigh in on how they see education changing in real time.
1:08.8	Have you ever thought of getting an education, Kevin?
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