An AI backlash is brewing
Date postedAugust 11, 2026
By Alex Kotran, Notes on AI Readiness (from August 5, 2026)
Over the past several months superintendents from the country’s largest school systems have described the same change in the weather of public sentiment. Parents are pushing back against AI. Students are pushing back even harder. As one superintendent told me, “In order to deal with the parent pushback against AI, we’re rewinding two years of work.”