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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Rewind: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education

Decoder with Nilay Patel · May 7, 2026 · 42:05

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Hey, everyone, Nilay here. We’re off today, while the team and I are cooking on a lot of really great stuff in the coming weeks. We’ll be back with an all-new interview on Monday. 

In the meantime, we really wanted to highlight this episode we first aired in the fall, because it’s about a huge subject: AI in schools. The school year is starting to wrap up now around the country, and we’re no closer to figuring out how to thread the needle about generative AI in education than we were in September.



Links: 


A majority of high school students use gen AI for schoolwork | College Board


About a quarter of teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork | Pew Research


Your brain on ChatGPT | MIT Media Lab


My students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re on to something. | Vox

How children understand and learn from conversational AI | McGill University


‘File not Found’ | The Verge



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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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