AI is ending the Enlightenment Age by displacing humans as the sole source of discovery
notmisha · x · 2026-09-22
The author argues we face the end of the Enlightenment Age, in which humans alone made the world intelligible and exercising reason established human agency and purpose.
AI displaces humanity as the sole source of discovery: when AI produces insights that humans then work to understand, our role in science — and our purpose for being — is fundamentally challenged.
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