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At a mid-April dinner at a D.C. think tank, I was asked to offer a few words on education and artificial intelligence. I observed that constantly improving AI platforms perform wonders – answering complex questions almost instantly, yielding remarkable efficiencies, and producing breathtaking innovations in industry, science, medicine, military affairs, and more. Yet like all technological advances, I said, AI brings curses as well as blessings. I emphasized the threats it poses to liberal education, starting with college students’ tendency to rely on AI to generate ideas, outline arguments, and even compose polished papers.

One veteran educator at the long table tut-tutted my concerns. AI is the future, she advised, and instead of lamenting days gone by and opposing progress, professors should facilitate students’ use of the dazzling technology.

I acknowledged that AI is the future but noted that students typically arrive at college accomplished in its daily employment and adept at outsourcing to it reading, analyzing, and writing. Our job, especially in the humanities, I contended, was to assist students in slowing down, savoring books, ruminating, questioning, refining their opinions by testing them in conversation with others who see matters differently, organizing their thoughts, and expressing themselves clearly both orally and in written work. Whereas overdependence on AI – or, for that matter, on human authorities – weakens the moral imagination and atrophies the intellect, pondering and interpreting, talking and listening, and writing and rewriting help the mind grow supple and strong.

Undercutting education by stunting students’ thinking and outsourcing their creativity is hardly the only peril to which AI gives rise. AI erodes empathy and human connection by serving as a replacement for clerks, consultants, therapists, teachers, and even friends and lovers. It dissolves the shared reality on which democratic self-government depends, blurring fact and fiction, amplifying propaganda, and proliferating falsehoods. It uses colossal data centers that consume enormous quantities of energy and potable water. It creates vast computer networks – essential to government, manufacturing, telecommunications, transportation, finance, health care, national security, and more – that are vulnerable to bugs and hacking, aid in cyberattacks, and execute unanticipated operations. It eliminates jobs, performing more efficiently than human beings tasks essential to industrial and postindustrial economies. It facilitates concentrations of wealth and power, generating massive market capitalizations and extensive ties to government for companies........

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