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Digital Philosophy

Studying Smarter with AI?

Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia.

Artificial intelligence is becoming an ubiquitous companion in our lives and institutions. As we strive for greater convenience and efficiency, we’re increasingly outsourcing our intellectual activities in judging, reasoning, and decision-making to what Bruno Liebrucks called ‘automated thinking’. In former times, it was believed that the divine intellect alone could comprehend a large totality at one glance. But nowadays, any AI user can feel like a voluntaristic deity, capable of commanding entire worlds of data at will. AI is especially appealing when thinking is hard work – as it is in education, and particularly at university.

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