Will AI Kill Our Freedom To Think?

famously questioned whether any system, however well-designed, could ever nurture freedom. For him, true learning happened in freedom from fear, not in efficient content delivery. If AI’s omnipresence in classrooms creates an atmosphere where mistakes are quickly corrected, paths auto-completed, and creativity constrained by what’s already been don... See more

In the age of AI, it’s more important than ever that we take pleasure in thinking. The purpose of AI is to replace thought. Instead of trying to become more productive, students need to ask themselves questions like: What are the dangers of my interactions with technology? What’s happening to my attention span? How much of what you’ve just written ... See more

Since the 1950s, discussions about AI have largely revolved around a big, tantalizing question: What can machines do, and where might they hit a wall? Will they ever truly think, understand, or maybe even become conscious? Could they reach the so-called “heights of human intelligence”? And then there’s that shadowy question looming in the backgroun

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