Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now

“I want to kill myself. I’m bottling everything up so no one worries about me.”

That’s one of the frightening, but apparently real, quotes from American kids in a recent Bloomberg report on the services schools are using lately to attempt to monitor student interactions with AI chatbots.

It’s an unsettling article that poses an unsettling problem: students talking to AI chatbots on school equipment, and it gives voice to the providers of an unsettling fix: AI software that…