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

This isn’t to say that AI is uniformly bad—it’s clearly not—but that we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (which are increasingly substitutable through technology) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (which hones mental development and cannot be substituted by a machine).

Critical thinking is dead, but it isn’t ChatGPT who killed it, nor the students who use it. It’s been dead for a long time.

In aggregate, school doesn’t reward thought. It makes no effort to foster it. The students who succeed are not the ones who think the most—it’s the ones who give the most of themselves to the machine. Students must go through

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