AI Is Changing How Children Learn to Think
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As AI systems handle routine cognitive tasks, schools face an urgent question: What is Education For?
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Timothy Cook
EDUCATOR · RESEARCHER · AUTHORTimothy Cook is the Director of the Cognitive Privacy Project and the founder of Connected Classroom. His book Built to Think is forthcoming from MIT Press,. He writes "The Algorithmic Mind" for Psychology Today, a column reaching 400,000 readers.
Timothy is a teacher with fourteen years of international teaching across five countries. His work introduced cognitive foreclosure, the argument that a capacity handed to AI before it forms in a child does not weaken but never fully develops. He also developed the Cognitive Privacy Impact Assessment, a framework for evaluating what AI systems capture, infer, and influence in the minds of their users.
