Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I only wrote a short contribution to this volume but I think the one-paragraph excerpt from it is a zinger: "Things will be smarter than we are: Instead of devising 'human-in-the-loop' policies to prevent AI from running amok, we will devise 'AI-in-the-loop' policies to help very fallible humans learn, think and create more effectively and more safely." I go on to discuss the 'second Copernican revolution' we are going through as humans contend with the realization that they are not at the centre of the thinking world; rocks can think. The full report is available from Elon University (286 page PDF).

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