AI removes the constraints that gave teaching its shape—one teacher, thirty students, limited time. But lifting constraints doesn’t make the work easier. It makes it different. Teachers trained for a bounded classroom now face an unbounded role that requires judgment, discernment, and presence in ways we haven’t yet mapped.
Writing began as bureaucracy and remains system-interface work. The panic over AI-generated text isn’t about protecting human creativity—it’s about a professional class defending its monopoly on the written word.