Maxine Greene
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Maxine Greene. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Maxine Greene's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The question my son asked at dinner was not the one that kept me up. He asked whether AI would take everyone's jobs. That one I could handle, even if my answer was incomplete. The question that followed — the one I did not have language for until I encountered Maxine Greene — was quieter. He said it almost to himself, looking at his plate: "Then what's the point of getting good at anything?"
That is not a question about employment. It is a question about whether becoming still matters when the machine can already be.
Greene spent more than fifty years arguing that the purpose of education is not to produce finished people equipped with marketable skills. It is to cultivate the capacity for becoming —
