It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good Friday morning, everyone. And on this summer Friday,

we've put together and lightly edited some recent segments we think you'll like, including historian

Poneil Joseph with a look back at the impact of the year 1963 on the United States. He wrote a whole

book about it this year on the civil rights movement and more from 1963. Also from our

centennial series, 100 years of 100 things, it's 100 years of commercial aviation,

commercial flights. There was a time, you know, when flying was a novelty and when it wasn't so

unpleasant, right? Plus, a chance to feel good again about the world with a favorite call in

from earlier this year from people who have sought and given help to their friends and

families and notably even to complete strangers. And we'll start with two angles on AI and

education. First, with English professor and New Yorker staff writer Huashu, who reflects on the

way Chant GPT is changing writing for teachers and students alike.

Yes, it includes the teachers, the professors, at colleges and universities, followed by

our WNYC and Gothamist reporter Jessica Gould on the deal of the New York City Teachers Union announced

to bring AI training to New York City's public schools for better or for

worse, we pick it up here. So picture this. It's late. You're a college student at your desk or in the

library, and you're working away on a paper on maybe Shakespeare that you've been putting off for

weeks. Writing it is hard, but along the way you surprise yourself.

As you write, you work something out on your own.

Vala, you've learned something about Shakespeare and maybe yourself.

But as students use AI tools like chat GPT for just about everything,

including their essays, those moments might be

going extinct. Writing is hard. Chat GPT practically eliminates the difficulty of writing altogether,

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