What C.S. Lewis' 1939 Wartime Lecture Teaches About Living Through the AI Transition
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-10-29
- The author cites C.S. Lewis' 1939 Oxford lecture "Learning in War-Time" to answer how to respond as AI reshapes the world and rewrites the social contract.
- Lewis's core point: life has never been "normal"—if we postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until we were secure, it would never have begun. A duty like rescuing drowning men is "worth dying for, but not worth living for."
- Applied to AI: rise to the challenge without foregoing what it means to be human—worth solving, but not something you can live for.
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