It was a scenario worthy of a TV sitcom: In making a case to the state board of education for limits on cellphones in Alaska schools, state education commissioner and former Anchorage School District superintendent Deena Bishop leaned heavily on an AI text generator – and failed to remove the fabricated citations it added to support her arguments. If she were a high school student, Bishop would have received an F on the assignment and a stern lecture about doing her own work. Embarrassingly, our top education executive is undereducated on the proper use of AI, and we shouldn’t send our students into the world similarly unequipped.