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free account today. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, August 14. I'm Zoe Thomas,

for the Wall Street Journal. Summer is coming to a close, and we all know what that means.

Back to school. This year, things could be different. Because of, you guessed it,

generative, artificial intelligence. I have everyone's using it. Like, it's slowly taking over.

In this three-part series, reading, writing, and algorithms,

we'll explore how generative AI is being used in schools, how it's affecting learning outcomes,

and how it's reshaping the market for education technology. To kick things off, we're going to

look at how students are using generative AI tools and where the line gets drawn between assistance

and cheating. Because it's not so clear-cut. Academia is an uncharted waters.

I've covered education for 12 years. I haven't seen anything remotely close to this. People

compare this to the printing press, to Gutenberg, to the calculator. The technology shift is

orders of magnitude larger than anything else we've seen.

Doug Belkin is an education reporter with the Wall Street Journal. He's talking about

generative AI programs. The one you're probably most familiar with is ChatGPT.

Since it launched back in November, ChatGPT and other tools like it have raised questions

about how they could reshape entire industries. According to consulting from McKinsey,

generative AI will increase productivity, potentially adding trillions of dollars a year to the

global economy. Customer service, sales, software engineering, and more could be dramatically

changed by these tools. That means the future workers filling these jobs will need to understand

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