Howard Gardner
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 Howard Gardner. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Howard Gardner'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 test score that haunted me was not my own.
My son came home with a number. A single number, printed on a sheet, meant to capture everything his mind could do. I looked at it the way you look at a photograph of someone you love — recognizing something, missing everything. This kid who builds elaborate physical contraptions in the garage, who reads a room full of adults with an emotional precision that unsettles me, who hears a song once and can hum back not just the melody but the bass line underneath — reduced to a digit.
I forgot about that number for years. Then I watched what happened when AI entered my team's workflow, and the number came back to me with force.
