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AI is here. So, what do we teach?
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Over the past few months, I have been forced to admit something that I refused to for the last decade, even as I saw machines continually gain abilities that I vehemently posited that they would never be able to: computers will soon be able to do any cognitive work that we humans can do. The profundity of this advent is hard to overstate and will affect every aspect of the economy, our social relationships, political structures, and much more. Fortunately, I do not have a say in how large-scale societal changes will take place, but I have been pondering how my life will change, and what my role in such a world will be.
Oppression of Revolutionary Ideas in Science
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We often view scientific inquiry as a meritocratic enterprise. Science is imagined as the battlefield of ideas, each tested through empiricism and rationalism, culminating in a slow, steady march towards progress for humanity. The imagery of war is intentional here: just as soldiers are indoctrinated of the evil of their enemies, scientists are led to perceive opposing ideas as fallacious, and that the only enemy of scientific inquiry is ignorance.