As Donald Knuth put it: “Ai has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires ‘thinking’ but has failed to do most of what people and animals do without thinking …”

What do we have left that is ours and ours alone? Sensorimotor skills that are all but automatic, yes. Consciousness, yes. Emotions. Instinct. Appetites, impulses and... See more

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.

And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more

I mean, we can’t out-AI an AI.

But we can out-human it.

Now is a time to lean into our humanity.

Yes, we can both do pattern recognition, and AI does it faster and more astutely.

But it can’t feel.

It can’t create the unknown.

It can only regurgitate.

These are the cracks in the pavement where living things sprout.

Where what is innately beautiful — life... See more