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At MIT’s Concourse programme, lecturer Linda Rabieh says AI has made questions about intelligence feel more urgent to students: is it just mathematical ability, or something broader? The programme uses humanities teaching and debate to help science and engineering students think through questions that do not have a neat quantitative answer.
Why it mattersConcourse accepts 50 first-year students each year. MIT News describes its seminars as a place to debate texts and, later in the year, practical moral and political issues. AI is one prompt for that work, not the subject of a new technical course. It is a useful reminder that teaching people to question technology is not the same as teaching them to build it.
Discuss: Should AI education put more weight on humanities and judgement, or keep those subjects separate from technical training?
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