This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. We are living in the age of AI. And for a while now, chatbots

have been helping students take notes during class and put together study guides, make outlines,

and summarize novels and textbooks. But what happens when we start handing over even bigger tasks,

like writing entire essays and work assignments and asking

AI to help us figure out what to eat and how to reply to emails. Well, professors say more and more,

students are using generative AI to write essays and complete homework assignments. One survey by Pew Research

found that about a third of teens say they use it

regularly to help with schoolwork. But it's not just students. Professors are also using generative

AI to write quizzes, lesson plans, and even soften their feedback. One academic called chatPT, a calculator on steroids. And universities

are working to establish guidelines and using software to track AI use. But some students are now

pushing back on that, saying that many of these detection tools are inaccurate. Well, today we're

joined by New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill,

who has been tracking how AI is reshaping daily life and the ethical gray zones it poses.

Last fall, Hill actually used AI to run her life for a week, choosing what to wear, eat,

and do each day, to see what the outcome would be.

Hill is also the author of Your Face Belongs to Us, a Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It,

which investigates the rise of facial recognition tech and its disturbing implications for civil liberties.

Kashmir Hill, welcome back to fresh air. Hi, Tanya. It's so implications for civil liberties. Kashmir Hill.

Welcome back to fresh air.

Hi, Tanya.

It's so nice to be here.

You know, I was talking with a professor friend recently who said he really is in the middle of an existential crisis over AI.

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