Join Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna of the MIT Media Lab for a discussion on AI use in education – and the questions it raises in today’s world.
For millions of years, human intelligence set the standard. But now, the lightning pace of tech has left us gasping, struggling to keep up with our own cognitive demands. AI has pushed civilization into overdrive, yet what we are ultimately doing is burning terawatts of power on data centers and excluding humans from this growth. We have built systems that are prefixed ‘smart’, but not smart enough to break free from their own inefficiency. Technology should amplify our creativity, not snuff it out. It should fuel social interactions, not isolate us. Instead, we are trapped in a dystopian remix of 1984 – 2026’s version – where digital censorship and surveillance threaten to choke innovation in those who refuse to play along. This talk will explore critical questions: As our tools evolve to think with us, we must ask: who will retain the ability to think?