Affiliate David Weinberger argues that AI can prepare students to engage in constructive dialogue, rather than solely eroding their intellectual abilities. Weinberger, a philosopher, writes: "AI can offer students individualized attention at scale, helping them become critical and constructive thinkers by engaging them in respectful, probing dialogues that aim to discover and test ideas, as we did in the ancient roots of Western thought." He suggests that instructors might even assign AI dialogues, evaluating students' engagement with 'chatbots.' Read more from Popular Science.