AI & Human Intellect — Stream 05

The transformation of human intellect

Investigating whether AI changes what it means to think, know, reason, create, remember, and judge.

Research in development

A third possibility sits between enhancement and decline: that the categories themselves change. Reading, remembering, and composing may come to mean something different when performed within a distributed system.

This stream examines historical precedents — writing, print, calculation, search — without assuming the present case is equivalent to them.

Questions in this stream
  1. 01

    Does AI change the process of intellectual becoming?

  2. 02

    Are the concepts of thinking and knowing themselves being revised?

  3. 03

    What can historical media transitions legitimately tell us about this one?