2) wifi goes down; software gets compromised; things get hacked; companies charge for once-free gidgets. I want my students to be able to think, summarize, argue, *write* when all of that happens, and not be stranded because somedays it's $25 to use ChatGPT.

Harnessing the power of AI to become helpless.

Or Chromebook - popular in edu - now comes with AI. Free for the first year. after that, you have to pay.

Over and above all this, I cannot - will not! - get over the disastrous environmental consequences of generative A.I. The energy used, the water used - we cannot afford it. And it's going to be the poorest and most marginalized among us who pay that price first.