Recently, a mother and father sued their son’s school because he was punished after being caught using AI for his class assignment.

News like this always gives me pause, because it suggests that every party in the story was wrong. The son, for example, probably should have told his teacher that he would use AI to help complete his assignment. The teacher should have also talked with their students about when it's okay to use AI to complete homework and when it isn't. The teacher's administrators have also had the better part of two years to design a comprehensive response to students using AI-generated content in assignments.

The parents in this story also have their share of the blame. A response to a lack of policy should not be reason enough to sue a school for perceived opportunities lost. 

I am not a lawyer, but I do know that litigation this early into the development of AI EdTech is a recipe to stifle innovation and create unnecessary backlash. I am a tenured professor and educational........

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