Adam Davidson-Harden is admittedly a latecomer to appreciating William Shakespeare, but the Ontario high school teacher now likens studying the Bard to "lifting weights, for language."

He said he worries that mental muscles aren't getting a workout these days if students lean on shortcuts like generative artificial intelligence for schoolwork.

When Davidson-Harden queried a student about a recent assignment on that included a non-existent quote, the student admitted to using GenAI "to avoid the messy and slower process" of sifting through the play, the English and social studies teacher from Kingston, Ont., said.

That student lost a valuable opportunity, he said: engaging with the content, formulating an opinion, finding support for their perspective and stringing together sentences to

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