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Iterative Intelligence or Cognitive Surrender

Access to AI is easy. Keeping your mind engaged while using it is the hard and critical part.

Access to AI is easy. Keeping your mind engaged while using it is the hard and critical part.

Can Emotional Intelligence Prevail Over AI?

As AI reshapes work and leadership, the next generation is proving that empathy, kindness, and human connection matter more than ever.

As AI reshapes work and leadership, the next generation is proving that empathy, kindness, and human connection matter more than ever.

Do You Have Bixonimania?

Be wary of AI medical advice. AI chatbots can misinterpret good research and can be scammed into believing fake studies.

Be wary of AI medical advice. AI chatbots can misinterpret good research and can be scammed into believing fake studies.

The True Promise of AI Isn't Productivity, It's Reinvention

AI is like Marvel's Terrigen Mist—not replacing humans, but unlocking hidden potential. From healing to perception, it’s making us more than human.

AI is like Marvel's Terrigen Mist—not replacing humans, but unlocking hidden potential. From healing to perception, it’s making us more than human.

AI Agents Are Coming for Your Sex Life

Personal Perspective: AI agents are poised to transform human sexuality in ways most people haven't imagined. We need to start paying attention.

Personal Perspective: AI agents are poised to transform human sexuality in ways most people haven't imagined. We need to start paying attention.

Proof of Humanity: Why Imperfection Is the New Trust Signal

Your latest PowerPoint looked flawless. The language was polished. So why did it feel like nobody was home?

Your latest PowerPoint looked flawless. The language was polished. So why did it feel like nobody was home?

AI Ethics Is a Double Misnomer

AI ethics exposes the limits of our vocabulary and our mindsets.

AI ethics exposes the limits of our vocabulary and our mindsets.

Artificial Intelligence: Its Challenge for Human Experience

Computers specialize in a narrow style of information management or "knowing." Knowledge-making is much broader than this.

Computers specialize in a narrow style of information management or "knowing." Knowledge-making is much broader than this.

The Law Says One Thing. Reality Rewards Another

Personal Perspective: Political contradictions thrive due to human mindsets.

Personal Perspective: Political contradictions thrive due to human mindsets.

AI and the New Boogeyman

Personal Perspective: AI isn't breaking education; it just turned on the lights.

Personal Perspective: AI isn't breaking education; it just turned on the lights.

The Skill AI Can’t Replace: Agency

A good-sounding AI answer can feel like a conscious decision, even when nobody actually chose it.

A good-sounding AI answer can feel like a conscious decision, even when nobody actually chose it.

What if Future Technology Served Well-Being First?

Technology is entering a new phase in which people, not machines, are meant to remain at the center.

Technology is entering a new phase in which people, not machines, are meant to remain at the center.

The Oracle Paradox

As AI and algorithmic systems become more powerful, yet less understandable, they may be reviving mystical thinking and a search for hidden forces behind modern life.

As AI and algorithmic systems become more powerful, yet less understandable, they may be reviving mystical thinking and a search for hidden forces behind modern life.

The Pendulum Principle: A Healthy Way to Use AI

AI wants you engaged. That is literally what it was built for. Here is how to use it without letting it use you.

AI wants you engaged. That is literally what it was built for. Here is how to use it without letting it use you.

Are Graduates Ready to Enter a Changing Workforce?

As AI reshapes the workforce, are graduates truly prepared for career success, equity, and social mobility in an uncertain economy?

As AI reshapes the workforce, are graduates truly prepared for career success, equity, and social mobility in an uncertain economy?

Can AI Understand Us Without Consciousness?

What if consciousness is central to reality, quantum mechanics, and the future alignment of artificial general intelligence?

What if consciousness is central to reality, quantum mechanics, and the future alignment of artificial general intelligence?

Kids Weren't Prepared for Social Media. Will AI Be Better?

We failed to prepare kids for social media by focusing on restriction instead of education. Can we do better with AI?

We failed to prepare kids for social media by focusing on restriction instead of education. Can we do better with AI?

Is Your Bot Becoming Your Balm?

We are keen to outsource the friction of relationships, but avoiding them comes at a price.

We are keen to outsource the friction of relationships, but avoiding them comes at a price.

AI and the Infinite Loop

AI generates the questions it cannot feel, and leaves us alone with the ones we cannot answer.

AI generates the questions it cannot feel, and leaves us alone with the ones we cannot answer.

What College Was Actually Selling

College is the first place many first-generation students encounter the formal English of institutions, science, and law as a daily lived language.

College is the first place many first-generation students encounter the formal English of institutions, science, and law as a daily lived language.

We Will Treat AI as Conscious Regardless of Whether It Is

Personal Perspective: One of the world's most rigorous skeptics spent a day with an AI and concluded it was conscious. If Richard Dawkins responds this way, what chance do we have?

Personal Perspective: One of the world's most rigorous skeptics spent a day with an AI and concluded it was conscious. If Richard Dawkins responds this way, what chance do we have?

What LLMs Are Quietly Doing to Creativity

Two new studies reveal how AI is standardizing creative thinking. Here's what parents, clinicians, and educators need to know, and what we can do about it.

Two new studies reveal how AI is standardizing creative thinking. Here's what parents, clinicians, and educators need to know, and what we can do about it.

The Vanishing Rung: AI Is Climbing the Career Ladder

AI isn't taking your job. It's taking the job you would have had 10 years ago. Here's what that means for how careers begin, and how seniors are made.

AI isn't taking your job. It's taking the job you would have had 10 years ago. Here's what that means for how careers begin, and how seniors are made.

Your Brain on AI: Cognitive Offloading, Debt, and Atrophy

Students are increasingly using AI to do their classwork, and school systems are contracting with companies to integrate AI into curricula. But at what price?

Students are increasingly using AI to do their classwork, and school systems are contracting with companies to integrate AI into curricula. But at what price?

Activities of Daily Thinking in the Age of AI

Thinking is a daily practice. Here's how to keep it yours.

Thinking is a daily practice. Here's how to keep it yours.

What AI Will Never Do

AI may imitate therapy, but therapy depends on embodied, imperfect human relating, understanding, and presence—qualities AI can never possess

AI may imitate therapy, but therapy depends on embodied, imperfect human relating, understanding, and presence—qualities AI can never possess

AI Is Coming for Psychotherapy

In almost 30 years of practice, I've never had to compete with something that never sleeps, never judges, and never charges for a missed session. Until now.

In almost 30 years of practice, I've never had to compete with something that never sleeps, never judges, and never charges for a missed session. Until now.

The Heart That Doesn't Break

The cost of human love isn't a flaw. It's the mechanism we live for.

The cost of human love isn't a flaw. It's the mechanism we live for.

The Collateral Challenge of AI Sycophancy

The future of AI guidance will depend on whether models learn to resist our worst requests and whether we learn to value that resistance. Double literacy makes this possible.

The future of AI guidance will depend on whether models learn to resist our worst requests and whether we learn to value that resistance. Double literacy makes this possible.

AI Won’t Be Conscious, But That’s Not the Problem

Artificial intelligence won't take your mind. It will just make you forget you had one.

Artificial intelligence won't take your mind. It will just make you forget you had one.