The central risk of artificial intelligence is not that machines will think for us.

It is that we may cease to initiate thought ourselves.

Alejandro Díaz-Garreta

Education leader, IB Mathematics teacher, and author of an ongoing body of essays on judgement, education, and artificial intelligence.

Thinking When Machines Think

On delegated thinking, judgement, and education in the age of intelligent machines.

Execution can be delegated

Judgement cannot.

Delegated thinking names the moment when cognitive initiative moves from the person to the system: when questions are framed, possibilities structured, and answers generated before the mind has fully determined what it is trying to understand.

Recently Added to the Project

The latest addition to the ongoing inquiry into judgement, education, and intelligent machines:

  • When Better Answers Produce Less Knowledge

    AI can give individuals better answers while weakening the processes that produce knowledge for everyone. The question is no longer simply whether AI reduces human effort, but what kind of effort disappears when the answer arrives sooner.

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