Some teachers ban calculator use in their tests, some explicitly check if your work is derived from answers you did not come up with (something you found on the internet etc.). Unless a class takes account of some tool, using it could be to the detriment of the thing you are there for—namely an education.

> replace AI with calculators

Seriously? Idk about you but we weren't allowed to use calculators until long after we had already learned how to do whatever the calculator did by hand, except in cases where that was never the point of the lesson to begin with (like calculating cosines). And even then, sparingly. The reason they eventually let people use it was that it had nothing to do with the lesson being taught, and it was a waste of time at that point to make us do arithmetic by hand. Not because it suddenly became OK to turn off your brain and become lazy.

Difference is AI involves offloading most thinking. AI may be cool for already intelligent, but it is not going to form intelligent brains leaning on that from a young age.

I don't mean "AI" like generating quizzes or whatever. But people fooling themselves that LLMs are a "bicycle for the mind" with little kids are delusional.