Saturday, July 04, 2026

Unis claim they teach critical thinking. AI is calling their bluff - Sinclair Davidson, Financial Review

AI can search, summarise, recombine, classify, draft, and generate alternatives. At best, it can be a useful learning assistant. It does not know which problems are worth solving, which assumptions matter, which sources should be trusted, or which conclusions should be defended under uncertainty. There is an old Socratic point here. Learning to prompt well is the old educational problem in new language – a good question is often worth more than a good answer. A weak student asks AI for a conclusion. Stronger students ask it to test assumptions, identify missing evidence, compare explanations, generate objections, or apply a principle to a new case.

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