The end of critical thinking in the classroomIllustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.September 3, 2025, 12:19 PM ET Listen to more stories on the Noa app.AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable.During a lesson on the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I ...