Competence and Capability in the Age of AI
Competence and Capability in the Age of AI
by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute
Christopher Morales’ 9/26/2026 post, “AI Has Made an Old Education Problem Harder to Ignore,” (written in Minding the Campus, a project of the National Association of Scholars) has touched a nerve with many:
Students can now generate essays, summaries and discussion posts in seconds. The danger is real, but the underlying weakness is older. AI did not create the gap between completing work and mastering knowledge. It made that gap much harder to ignore.
Morales reveals the staggering statistics on the…
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