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Slightly more expect AI to have a positive impact on society rather than a negative one.

Many teens who are optimistic say AI will make life easier, and those who are more skeptical worry about over-reliance on AI and job loss.

For NPR News, I'm Leigh Gaines.

Anthropic's partnership with the nonprofit CodePath, which provides computer science courses to students at colleges and universities across the country, is expected to give the company an in with a wide range of schools and students.

Other tech companies, including Google and OpenAI, have also partnered with colleges and universities to give students access to their AI products.

Anthropic says its partnership will give more than 20,000 students, many from low-income backgrounds, access to the chatbot Claude and coding tool ClaudeCode.

And recent survey data shows many employers expect college graduates to have some experience using AI tools.

For NPR News, I'm Leigh Gaines.

Shanae Bond teaches English at Southwest High School in Fort Worth.

Her students rarely use laptops.

Instead, they write nearly everything by hand.

It's part of Bond's strategy to keep AI out of her classroom.

But she may be in the minority.

Roughly 60 percent of surveyed teachers said they used AI at least a little in their classroom.

That's according to a July 2025 poll from the Ed Week Research Center.

Bond says she's open to changing her mind about AI, but right now she doesn't see much value in it for her students.

For NPR News, I'm Leigh Gaines.

Numerous studies

show several of the most popular AI detectors flagged some things as AI-generated that weren't, and vice versa.

Nonetheless, NPR found that some school districts from Utah to Florida to Ohio are spending thousands of dollars on these tools.