The second piece in my series on finding the right line between human thought and AI assistance: “Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?”

We may very well look back on our first years of engagement with AI in forms like ChatGPT as we now look back on AOL before the flourishing of the World Wide Web — a comfortable, contained, and relatively inflexible introduction to a new digital world. The flexibility and expansiveness of the Web — the fact that anyone could assemble sites and services from servers, collections, and data from around the world — made it a much better environment for the generation of new ideas.

Dan Cohen @dancohen