Is Using AI on Your Homework Cheating?

Written By Stephanie Saville

AI’s Impact on Childhood and Education

Detroit's data community goes home for this one. Ryan and Aaron are joined by Mary Wilkerson (theology teacher with 25 years working with adolescents — and Aaron's wife) and John Breyer (Director of Partnerships at Longbeard, the Catholic AI company behind Magisterium AI) to talk about what AI is actually doing to kids in classrooms and living rooms.

What we cover:

  • Why students genuinely don't consider AI use cheating, and the "write it like a fourteen-year-old so I get a B" trick teachers can't catch

  • John's four real concerns for K-12: academic honesty, disrupted learning, distortion, and kids starting to sound like the machine

  • The MIT "Your Brain on ChatGPT" study everyone got wrong: AI layered on a trained brain is a superpower; AI instead of one is a disaster

  • Oral exams, note cards, and why AI is pushing schools back to analog assessment

  • Building AI for 2,000 years of Church documents: RAG over 32,000 sources, digitizing books in Rome, and training the first Catholic language model

  • Parenting in practice: The Anxious Generation chapter summaries, paid "internships" for your 12-year-old, and why virtue beats skills when you can't predict the job market

 
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