The moment we panic about technology in education, we forget that public health—or any infrastructure, for that matter—is never solved by a single regulatory decree.
The latest maneuver by OpenAI—the rollout of "ChatGPT for Teens"—reads less like responsible corporate stewardship and more like an elaborate, defensive PR exercise designed to deflect scrutiny.
The spectacle unfolding in Massachusetts—a seventeen-year-old charged with double murder after using an AI chatbot for "gothic novel-kind of stories"—is not a story about technology.