Blog essay: AI has no wisdom, and outsourcing your thinking means you won't either
dimonomid · hn · 2026-09-22
Alexandru Nedelcu published a long essay arguing that AI systems can supply information and answers but lack genuine wisdom—the judgment of what is worth knowing and doing. If people outsource their thinking to AI, he argues, they gradually lose that wisdom themselves. A substantive take on whether AI augments or replaces human judgment.
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