Stephen Hawking’s Warning That AI Amplifies the Illusion of Knowledge
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it’s the illusion of knowledge,” Stephen Hawking warned, echoing a line often attributed to historian Daniel Boorstin. Psychologists Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil showed in a 2002 Yale study that people routinely overrate how well they understand everyday mechanisms, and Keil later found in 2015 that internet […]