{
  "id": 17686,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom",
  "title": "‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom",
  "summary": "Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back? If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality and its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history. With it you need no armies of typists and artists to spread your propaganda. It can enable",
  "authors": "Katherine Rundell",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "misinformation,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T08:00:41.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17686",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}