Stephen Dubner

It seems like everybody's bought into it.

One thing I wonder about is how the mainstream introduction of a certain kind of AI, let's just consider chat GPT, the median AI that most people are exposed to and either love or fear or hate or whatever.

How do you see what you're trying to do intersect with this moment?

Because I could see it going both ways.

I could see some people, and I would raise my hand here thinking, wow, if

Knowledge like that is at the touch of everyone's fingertips so easily.

That's awesome because I don't have to spend all my time teaching that to kids if I'm a teacher or memorizing it if I'm a kid.

And I can actually just know that I live with a big foundation of amazing knowledge and I can actually now think more easily.

deeply, more creatively, et cetera.

And then I could imagine there are people who take the exact opposite, which is to say, if you let AI become a major character in the way that we educate people, then what are we even doing here?

I hear both sentiments expressed.

So I'm curious, A, I have a feeling I know where your sentiment lies would be in position one that I just argued, I'm guessing.

But B, I really want to know how you see it being a tool that's used in a learning environment like yours.

Coming up after the break, who were Steve Levitt's favorite guests on People I Mostly Admire?

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Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.

Back now to my conversation with Steve Levitt, who has been talking about the new schools he's starting.

Levitt, I have to say, I have not heard you this excited since, well, maybe when you visited me in New York maybe a month ago, I had Clamato for you.

You were excited by that.