
maybe: leif weatherby
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i study the history of knowledge and try to make some of it too; bylines @nytimes, @BostonGlobe, @the_point_mag, @jacobin
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we're obsessing over the ways AI is going to challenge the way we foster and practice literacy. maybe: leif weatherby points out we're glossing over the disruption it may create on *numeracy* and quantitative reasoning nytimes.com/2025/06/02/opi…

In New York Times Opinion “A.I. is just as much a challenge to numeracy — our knowledge and ability to use mathematics and reason quantitatively — as it is to literacy,” writes Leif Weatherby, the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. nyti.ms/4koi1Fn

Great op-ed by maybe: leif weatherby — on AI and the twinned threats of illiteracy and innumeracy. Maybe the best defense of a broad liberal arts education one can mount today. nytimes.com/2025/06/02/opi…
