Education became an agent deployment site

AI in education is often framed as a tutoring question. In 2025 it became a systems question: who sets the learning goal, who sees the student’s data, and how does a teacher know whether an assistant helped understanding or merely completed a task?

The educational value of an agent depends on keeping the learner visible. Personalization should not become invisible surveillance, and convenience should not erase the productive difficulty of learning. The classroom is a place where assistance must leave room for agency.