Every generation inherits a tool it did not build and cannot fully explain. Fire. The printing press. The internet. Each one arrived carrying both a promise and a debt, the promise of what it could do, and the debt owed by anyone who never learned to wield it. Artificial intelligence is the largest of these tools yet, and it did not wait for permission. It is already inside the classroom, the group chat, the college essay, the doctor's office, the boardroom. A generation is