Rich kids have always been able to pay somebody to do their homework.

It's impossible for me to read these articles about AI in education without believing that the real, fundamental objection is not that students can and do cheat, but that access to cheating has been democratized; that it is now accessible to the unprivileged.

Education should be non-transactional; a system that _can't_ be bought out or gamed. But that - in cost, and in outcomes - would be a rebuke to that privilege.