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S7E05 - Browser Bots are Doing the Homework

S7E05 - Browser Bots are Doing the Homework

Update: 2025-10-02
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Agentic AI is coming hard-baked into browsers, and it's absolutely frictionless to have it complete homework. Brent & Tim discuss Google's (NOT paused) Homework Helper and Perplexity's Comet browser as examples of ways AI companies are proactively dismantling the learning process while claiming to support students. 

This is a bit of a dark one, but we've got to discuss these things.

Show notes: www.TheHigherEdTechPodcast.com 

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S7E05 - Browser Bots are Doing the Homework

S7E05 - Browser Bots are Doing the Homework

Tim VanNorman & Brent Warner