Let’s replace scare tactics with strategy, and start building the frameworks people need. W ho else is tired of the headlines? " AI is destroying our thinking." "Students can’t think for themselves anymore." "ChatGPT is the end of human intelligence." I’ve seen more of these in the past six months than actual conversations about how people learn to think with AI.  And that’s the problem. The real danger isn’t that AI is killing our cognition—it’s that we’re failing to teach p

by Merrill Keating & Sairen J ack Clark's " Children in the Dark " (his speech at The Curve conference in Berkeley) isn't panicking. It's something rarer: an honest internal register of tension from someone who's been in the room for a decade, watching capabilities emerge faster than control solutions. The reflexive response is predictable: "There is no creature. It's just a system." Yes. And that's exactly the point. What emerges is not magic, but it is emergent For ten year