Stephen Downes

I'm looking at this article with this other article in mind: Agile Learning's Strategies for Keeping AI (Mostly) Out of Your Course. Why would you do this? Here's a fresh take from Carlo Iacono: anxiety about AI isn't universal, but reflects the concerns of a specific class of people who practice "a narrower, culturally prestigious form of thinking: abstract, language-heavy, credentialled reasoning that can be made legible to institutions." He calls it 'prestige thinking', practised by "Writers. Researchers. Analysts. Consultants. Managers. Academics. The people who were rewarded for producing legible cognition, and who built identities around the idea that this cognition was both rare and holy. In other words, us." The upshot: "The thinking class is losing its monopoly on prestige thinking. This is probably fine for humanity in the large and definitely painful for those of us whose identities were built on that monopoly. Our anxiety is real, but it is not universal. Our loss is genuine, but it is not everyone's loss."