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In lecture halls and seminar rooms across America, a quiet revolution is underway. Students are using AI to write essays, solve problems, and even make daily decisions, while professors scramble to detect cheating with invisible traps. The Economist’s former AI reporter, Abby Bertics, reports from campus about an education system in crisis, and asks what the future might look like as students begin to tap into a tool that can think quicker, write faster and teach better than many of their instructors.


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