Eric, are you familiar with AVID for higher education? Ask your students to read, write, and work directly with texts in class. The problem isn't "reading" - as you've written this and been featured on top page of Medium, with 1 million members and many younger people both reading and writing - and communicating - with each other. In December I will have been out of the classroom for 5 years. Every student I ever taught for 20 years eventually discovered something we were reading in class that they loved. But then I always thought + taught outside of the box. AI may be able to digest large blocks of text into decent summaries. I think it's very unlikely to duplicate real human written communication - and I also wonder why anyone would want to do so.