Abe Davis warns AI decouples knowledge from understanding—and settling for knowledge is dangerous
weichiuma · x · 2026-09-24
Abe Davis argues that AI often decouples knowledge—access to information—from understanding—mastery of it. The danger, he says, is settling for the former when you need the latter: understanding is harder to gain and to quantify, but ultimately far more important.
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