Stephen Downes

This is a good overall summary of an informed perspective on AI in education that avoids the cliches and sees AI as something that is fundamentally new, and not defined by simple metaphors. I appreciate this perspective. Not that I agree with it all - my first reaction on reading the first part was to post this on Mastodon: "Some day in the future philosophers will agree that 'meaning' is a construct invented by logical positivists to play the same role previous (and no longer accepted) constructs like 'noumena' played in earlier metaphysics." Anyhow, Dron also says, "no more cognitive offloading: it's cognitive redistribution," whicch I agree with, and "the answer is not to keep humans in a loop (but) to think of genAIs as being part of the web of people, tools, processes, structures, theories, models, appliances, devices, and other artifacts that extends our cognition," which also makes sense to me.