The return to classrooms multiplies the presence of ChatGPT. It has already become the indispensable tool of millions of students. Its use fell sharply in June and July during the long vacation, yet by late August it surged again with the opening of schools in the United States. Students turn to AI more within the classroom than outside it. Some teachers view this as a threat, warning that it erodes effort and weakens critical thought. Others accept it as inevitable, an evolutionary adaptation. Dylan reminds us with his old refrain that times do change. The question is no longer whether to ban or permit, but how to teach students to use AI with awareness and to mark the limits of its role in learning.

The debate inevitably touches on bias. Akli Adjaoute, an authority on AI security, responds that this is no error; it simply mirrors who we are and the world we inhabit. AI invents nothing. It learns from human data and inherits our assumptions, quarrels, and historical burdens. Books, medical records, police files, social media, even job applications, all are mirrors of societies shaped by stereotypes and discrimination. Algorithms replicate them as they stand and, at times, amplify them. It is worth remembering that the technology does not think, does not judge, does not hold an ideology. What it delivers is an imperfect reflection of ourselves. The task ahead is to teach students to handle it critically, for better or worse, a presence now inescapable.