This type of dialogue with a non-conscious machine will become commonplace. This could profoundly change education, expertise, and knowledge itself. It doesn't relieve us of thinking, but helps us to think more clearly and originally to confront challenges to our ideas.
David Weinberger //
08 Sep 2025
The tech industry has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering, but AI has taken this to new heights. We're bombarded daily with headlines about AI writing novels, diagnosing diseases, and even replacing entire job functions. Yet, when you peel back the layers, you find a landscape littered with half-baked implementations, inflated claims, and solutions that work only in the most controlled environments.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe //
08 Sep 2025
The concept of unknown unknowns provides us with some cover for not anticipating changes that are impossible to predict.
David Weinberger //
12 May 2025
AI's favoring of induction over deduction is the root of its power, for it lets it deal with the specifics that bedevil the application of broad major premises.
David Weinberger //
10 Mar 2025