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What students understand about AI that adults miss

Arizona schools must prep for technology's challenges by cultivating students capable of critical thinking, reflection in changing world

OPINION — New teachers, new classes, new notebooks and, increasingly, new conversations about artificial intelligence. With the school year underway, before we tell students how AI will transform their education and their future, perhaps we should listen to what they are telling us. 

A few months ago, graduation ceremonies carried an undercurrent of tension. Speakers who invoked artificial intelligence as the defining force of the future drew loud boos and jeering from many graduating students. 

At the Air Force Academy, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged during his commencement speech that he watched clips of these incidents to spare himself a similar fate. 

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