The lesson of AI literacy class: Don’t let the chatbot think for you

Mike Taubman, left, and Scott Kern at North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark, N.J., on Feb. 3, 2026. The two created, and co-teach, the school’s new artificial intelligence literacy class. (Juan Arredondo/The New York Times) By NATASHA SINGER The first session of a new artificial intelligence class this month for high school seniors in Newark, New Jersey, involved purely human intelligence. The students’ assignment: to compare when they had passively scrolled through...