The turn toward purpose-questioning is not a philosophical retreat from practical problems — it is the practical problem. When AI can complete standard assignments, the assignment's design has already failed, regardless of whether the student used the tool. This is what the humanities educators' manifesto on AI argues: schools moved quickly to adopt AI policies, but the harder interrogation — what pedagogy is for in the first place — was skipped. The AFT's framing of AI as a "seismic change" is the union acknowledging that negotiating over tool access…