Florida's Education Commissioner wrote an anti-AI-in-schools essay — apparently with AI's help

paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-29

Latest entry in economist Paul Novosad's ongoing series on people writing about AI and education getting caught: Florida's Education Commissioner published an essay urging schools to keep AI out so kids learn to write properly — and the piece appears to have been written with AI's help. Scholars including Brendan Nyhan shared the irony.

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