A growing concern in education is whether AI is making students cognitively lazy. It misses a more serious question:

What happens to democracy when the systems that mediate knowledge are privately governed by a few powerful actors?

Recent remarks from Palantir CEO Alex Karp described AI as a force that could reduce the influence of highly educated voters (especially women) while increasing the influence of under-educated men.
https://educationfutures.com/post/ai-as-anti-democratic-infrastructure-and-what-education-can-do-about-it/