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 Reality Taught Us How to Think 

    Many of the deepest learning experiences education depends upon were never educational inventions. They emerged because reality itself taught us how to think. What happens when AI begins to mediate those encounters?

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