Avoiding Education’s Turing Trap

Generative AI can help advance a more creative, connected, and caring education system, but only if we employ it to enhance human intelligence.

(Illustration by Chad Hagen) In 1950, Alan Turing posed a bold question: Can machines think ? That inquiry sparked the field of artificial intelligence and ignited a powerful vision—along with deep concerns—that machines might someday replicate or even surpass human intelligence. Today, signs of AI’s presence in education are multiplying: personalized tutors, adaptive assessments, predictive dashboards, automated grading. But before we ask how AI can improve education, we must first ask: What are we optimizing for? Too often, the answer is efficiency. This tendency reflects what Stanford Unive

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