by PRP Group, on 03/18/2024
The suspicion that technology might interfere with learning is at least as old as widely literate societies. According to Plato, Socrates believed that the widespread use of writing would lead students to forget important information. Something similar is happening with artificial intelligence right now. It seems like it’s everywhere, and it’s so capable that many are worrying that there won’t be anything left for humans to do.
It remains to be seen whether AI will fundamentally change human society in the way literacy did, but we already know that AI is a tool that can extend human capabilities and free us from mundane chores to focus on more exciting and fundamentally human things, like creative expression, exploration, and problem-solving.