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.

The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more

Journalists at ProPublica use AI to comb through thousands of documents, looking for critical moments to use in their exposés. DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicts protein structures with near-experimental level accuracy. Neuralink2 uses AI to give paralysed folks the blessing of mobility. Society is accelerating, and your students shouldn’t get left

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