Across England's schools, artificial intelligence is arriving not through careful design but through a thousand uncoordinated decisions made in the absence of national guidance — a condition one prominent education reformer compares to the ungoverned spread of a crisis. Sir Anthony Seldon and his co-author are calling on government to treat AI integration as a matter of civic urgency, demanding a national framework, teacher training, and reformed assessment before the distance between how young people live and how they are taught becomes irreparable. The question at the heart of this moment is