Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the Neutron Bomb for Education
Schools, college admissions, and AI are built on rationalism, a view that overvalues IQ and SAT-style intelligence and amputates emotion, intuition, memory, imagination, and the body.
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Schools, college admissions, and AI are built on rationalism, a view that overvalues IQ and SAT-style intelligence and amputates emotion, intuition, memory, imagination, and the body.
The AI industry has catastrophic concentration risk: 70% of hyperscaler AI revenue comes from Anthropic and OpenAI alone, and if either fails, the United States would enter a recession overnight.
Cisco’s revenue growth accelerated from a guided 5% to 18% in the latest quarter, and its fiscal 2027 guidance calls for 15% growth at the midpoint.
Recursive learning has shifted AI training from roughly 90 percent human-taught to about 50-50 in less than a year, and current trend lines point toward 90 percent machine-taught.
Generative AI is still prediction (of the next word or image component), but linguistic output makes it usable by non-technical people and so dazzling that executives forget traditional machine learning on structured data remains the better tool for better decisions, and the strongest results come from combining the two.
There is no gap between AI hype and reality, because businesses that do not use large language models and agents are already falling behind.
The 2000s subprime short was a once-in-a-century trade because Wall Street would sell cheap, illiquid insurance on bonds you didn’t own, and that opening is not coming back.