ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
AI was born at an academic workshop in 1956, the year before Jeff Burgess was. Seventy years later, it's a household name. The question Jeff is asking isn't whether AI works. It's whether we still know how to think without it.
In this episode, Jeff takes aim at AI dependence, starting with sixth graders who are taught to lean on it before they've learned to think for themselves, and working outward to the staggering environmental cost of the data centers powering it all (millions of gallons of water a day, with consequences nobody will understand for decades). He's not anti-technology. He's against the crutch.
Jeff also makes the case for a new kind of education entirely: a four-year, co-ed AI literacy class starting freshman year of high school, one that could end up mattering more to a graduate's future than the diploma itself.
This is a sharp, unfiltered take on where artificial intelligence is helping, where it's hollowing people out, and why a little old-fashioned human judgment still beats the algorithm. Artificial intelligence versus awful intelligence. You decide.
To learn more about Jeff’s journey, pick up a copy of 𝙄𝙩 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙚: 𝙈𝙮 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 today! Now also available in audiobook format.
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Wondrous Stories.... Words and music by Jon Anderson.
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