I click, therefore I know? Wisdom in the age of AI
Wisdom doesn’t stem from the quantity of information, but from the ability to make sense of it. In a world full of ready-made answers, how can we nurture the skill of drawing our own conclusions?
“Once we thought people were stupid because they didn’t have access to information. Then the internet came along and it turned out that people were still stupid, even though they had unlimited access to knowledge.” This anonymous quote likely originates from the early century when we witnessed the explosive growth of the internet and the consequent access to knowledge and information on an unprecedented scale. Instead of laboriously wading through encyclopedia pages, a simple search query sufficed. Instead of waiting for a TV program, we could search for the information we were interested in on our own.
Now we have moved even further. ChatGPT or Gemini can generate a detailed report on any topic in just a few seconds. All you need to do is type in a question to receive an answer from any field on any subject. Does such unrestricted access to information truly make us wiser? Or does it strip us of the ability to think independently and critically?
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