The problem isn’t workflow efficiency. It’s that you’re treating thought leadership like a manufacturing process when it’s actually a translation problem.
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.