Intelligence isn't just what thought produces but what it does to the thinker.

Artificial intelligence can generate insight at scale, but it cannot be transformed by it.

In the age of frictionless answers, the real question is whether we still allow thinking to change us.

I’ve spent the last few years thinking about intelligence, looking to understand human, artificial, and the strange space between them. Most of the debate is around capability. How fast can it reason? How accurately can the answer be? How convincingly can it write? But somewhere along the way, I began to sense that we were measuring the wrong thing. Intelligence is usually judged by performance, and even our admiration of large language models follows that pattern that, when unleashed, ends up with the curious notion of artificial general intelligence. Said simply, we are impressed by what these models can produce.

Yet the most meaningful moments of human intelligence in my own life have had very little to do with production. They have had everything to do with transformation. And this led me........

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