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The Worst A.I. You'll Ever Use (And We're Not Ready for a Better One)
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The AI you're using today is the worst AI you'll ever use. Every week, it gets smarter, faster, and more capable. Great news, but it shifts the question entirely. The bottleneck was never the technology. The bottleneck is us.
Over 70 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills — struggling with anything beyond simple sentences and short paragraphs. One in four. And in total, 130 million read below a sixth-grade level. Those numbers got worse between 2017 and 2023, not better. And before you think "that's not me" — thirty years of point and click, search bars, and social media have quietly eroded how all of us read and communicate.
In this episode, Luis and Elizabeth make the case that AI is an amplifier: it makes strong skills stronger and weak skills dangerously worse. They break down the three humanistic skills that determine whether AI helps you or misleads you, and none of them are technical.
Better AI doesn't mean better results. Better humans do.
Resources:
- Companion article: https://ai4sp.org/the_worst_ai_you_will_use
- AI Compass: https://ai-compass.ai
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