The Problem With Asking Google and AI for Answers: Chris Bryant

Artificial intelligence has persuaded a lot of folks that we need to radically overhaul education.

Now that chatbots can speedily retrieve information and answer complex questions, why bother memorizing historical facts or quotations? Shouldn’t we instead teach kids to think critically and solve problems, and leave the grunt work to computers?

There’s a problem with these arguments: humans require knowledge to think creatively. Outsourcing our memory and cognition to Google and AI risks making us dumber and more susceptible to misinformation (including errors made by AI).

I’m no Luddite. I think it’s amazing that we have so much ...