Sunday, October 26, 2025

AI's Impact on Humanity: It's Complicated

The Age of De-Skilling: Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?  by Kwame Anthony Appiah
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/age-skilling-100000948.html

Will AI Bury Future Generations in Cognitive Debt?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-destroying-traditional-career-automating-learning-by-doing-by-bertrand-badre-and-florian-ingen-housz-2025-10
As companies seek to automate repetitive tasks in the name of cost-cutting, they should consider the longer-term implications. If we transfer all codified knowledge to machines, we will bequeath to future generations a world where it will be ever harder to learn by doing, to achieve mastery, and thus to aspire to creative freedom.

 
What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools
 
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.