The One Kind of Knowing AI Cannot Give Us

AI is becoming astonishingly good at knowing things and doing things. Aristotle had a name for the kind of judgment that comes only from living with the consequences.

Aristotle had a more interesting vocabulary for knowledge than we do.

We tend to collapse a lot of different abilities into the phrase “being smart.” Someone knows a lot of facts, we call them smart. Someone can build something complicated, we call them smart. Someone makes consistently good decisions about family, work, money, friendship, or life, and w…