Memorizing facts is becoming less important than knowing how to ask the right questions and evaluate AI-generated responses. Yet this same technology that can accelerate learning also risks creating dependency if we don’t learn to leverage it strategically.

When artificial intelligence is used to diagnose cancer or automate soul-crushing tasks that require vapid toiling, it makes us more human and should be celebrated. But when it sucks out the core process of advanced cognition, cutting-edge tools can become an existential peril. In the formative stages of education, we are now at risk of stripping... See more

AI leaders should spend more energy reckoning with this fact. A generation of kids is losing their best opportunity to learn how to read, write, and think, and they will pay the price for their whole lives. It’s not every student. Some students are becoming more empowered and knowledgeable... See more