The Best Defense Against A.I. is Reading Plato

Ross Douthat of the New York Times discusses the importance of a liberal arts education in the age of AI. Show description:

What’s really driving the humanities crisis in higher education? As enrollment and reading decline, I asked Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy, what it was like to run a liberal arts program that was gutted. I wanted to know whether she thinks the age of A.I. could bring back the kind of education she says is fundamental to human formation.

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