Thinking Is Not Manufacturing
Higher education is having the wrong argument about AI, and it’s wrong in a very specific way. Most of the current debate assumes that thinking works like production: a student “creates” thoughts, then expresses them
Higher education is having the wrong argument about AI, and it’s wrong in a very specific way. Most of the current debate assumes that thinking works like production: a student “creates” thoughts, then expresses them
If thinking is perception—not manufacturing—then education has always had a single underlying job: Move a student’s conscious attention upward. That sentence sounds simple, but it changes how you interpret nearly every argument happening about AI
Continue readingEducation Is the Upward Migration of Attention
If thinking is perception, and if education is the upward migration of attention, then AI forces a single, unavoidable conclusion: We have to change what we measure. Because the old measurement regime was built for