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
- 01
Does AI change the process of intellectual becoming?
- 02
Are the concepts of thinking and knowing themselves being revised?
- 03
What can historical media transitions legitimately tell us about this one?