The integration of generative artificial intelligence into global education systems has crossed a critical threshold, shifting from a speculative technological trend to a dominant fixture of daily student life. Nearly four years after the commercial deployment of foundational large language models like ChatGPT in late 2022, educational researchers, policymakers, and classroom instructors are grappling with a profound paradox: while educational technology programs of the past frequently struggled to achieve basic student engagement—a phenomenon previously dubbed "The 5 Percent Problem"—generative artificial intelligence has achieved near-universal adoption among youth without requiring external institutional encouragement....