The Curious Task

Matt Dinan - Is AI Ruining Liberal Education?


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Matt speaks with Matt Dinan about why AI is not so much ruining liberal education as exposing it's main shortcoming: treating education as a system of credentials rather than a challenging process of reading, writing, discussing, and learning how to learn. Dinan argues that the best response is not to become an "AI cop", but to design courses that incentivize students to learn skills they will need in any scenario where AI has an impact on our society - for better or for worse.

References

  1. “Permission Structures” — Matt Dinan
  2. https://mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptical-professors-guide
  3. Matt Dinan’s viral “honest B or C student” post on X
  4. https://x.com/second_sailing/status/1912857896599105564
  5. “Tyler Cowen’s AI Campus” — Marginal Revolution
  6. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/tyler-cowens-ai-campus.htm
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