The Beautiful Betrayal
Carlo Iacono,
Hybrid Horizons,
Jun 11, 2025
What I like about this post is the inverse of the argument that 'AI impairs learning by doing the thinking for you'. Carlo Iacono describes a situation where a student asks an AI a question and the AI's response is "technically correct but somehow fundamentally off." Iacono writes, "unlike a human teacher who might intuit meaning from context, who might bridge the gaps in a poorly formed question with experience and empathy, the AI responds only to what's actually there." The result is that "the student, confronted with their own imprecision, must return to the drawing board." This is a bit of learning that would be skipped if they had a human teacher. By depending on the teacher, they never advance beyond their normal state of imprecision.
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