How students actually use AI toolsWhen it first made the news, ChatGPT was called “the death of the English essay.” Now, that kind of language seems like a promise of an apocalypse that (predictably, in hindsight) never came.Today, students don’t use generative AI tools to generate whole essays. Across multiple surveys, brainstorming, outlining, research, and test prep emerge as the main use cases for AI. For example, the survey from University of Californ