This post is an essay by Carl Hendrick published on his Substack, The Learning Dispatch. Here's a link to the original. In it he develops a pleasingly optimistic argument about the increasing role that humans will have to play in the emerging world of artificial intelligence. Given all the gloom and doom surrounding the subject, I … Continue reading Carl Hendrick — AI Automates Scut Work But Requires Increased Human Supervision
This post is the text of a keynote address I gave on July 14 (Bastille Day!) at the Building Blackboard Together 2026 conference in Dallas. This is an annual event hosted by Blackboard -- the learning management systems (LMS) company -- which brings together the Blackboard staff and the system's users at colleges and universities … Continue reading Know It Before You Mess With It
This post is an essay by Adam Kirsch from the Atlantic. Here's a link to the original. It's the most heartening piece I've read about the crucial role for human creativity in the grim new world of artificial intelligence. As he points out, the rise of photography created a crisis for painters, who found that … Continue reading Adam Kirsch — Why AI Can Never Replace Human Ingenuity
This post is an essay by my favorite Substack author, a philosophy professor at a regional state university in Pennsylvania, who has a wonderful pen name: Hilarius Bookbinder. Here's a link to the original. In this essay, he explores the way in which the rise of AI on college campuses has exposed the credentialing game … Continue reading Hilarius Bookbinder — The End of Credentialing
This post is an essay by Matthew Pittinsky, a sociologist of education who founded the ed tech company, Blackboard. Here's a link to the original. In it he assesses the value of my work for people in the field of educational technology, where he has constructed his career. I'm flattered by his praise, but I … Continue reading Matthew Pittinsky — Three Books, by One Author, that Every EDTech Entrepreneur Should Read…and Why
This post is an essay by Christopher Mims, which was published recently in the Wall Street Journal. Here's a link to the original. He's presenting an argument I find compelling about how artificial intelligence is not really thinking -- at least not in the way that humans actually think. Here's how he puts it: There’s something … Continue reading Christopher Mims — We Now Know How AI “Thinks” — And It’s Barely Thinking at All
This post is a piece by Angus Fletcher about the limitations of artificial intelligence. In it he argues that computers can do a lot of amazing things that would stump simple humans, but they can't write a good novel. Here's a link to the original in NAUTILUS. The core of his argument is this. Computers … Continue reading Angus Fletcher — Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
