Liberal Education in America, the AI Challenge, and the Pope

At a mid-April dinner at a D.C. think tank, I was asked to offer a few words on education and artificial intelligence. I observed that constantly improving AI platforms perform wonders - answering complex questions almost instantly, yielding remarkable efficiencies, and producing breathtaking innovations in industry, science, medicine, military affairs, and more. Yet like all technological advances, I said, AI brings curses as well as blessings. I emphasized the threats it poses to liberal education, starting with college students' tendency to rely on AI to generate ideas, outline arguments,...