His school district had just become the latest casualty in a wave of cyberattacks sweeping across the nation. With AI, phishing emails look legitimate now. “With AI, phishing emails look legitimate now.”Teachers now face the unnerving task of evaluating whether an email from their principal is genuine — or a cleverly disguised trap. Doug Couture, director of technology at South Windsor Public Schools in Connecticut, puts it bluntly: “Generative AI has weaponized phishing. “I get unhappy customers when we run phishing simulations,” says Chris Bailey, technology director at Edmonds School District in Washington.