Key points

Human agency keeps us from running on "AI autopilot" as it grows more persuasive and fluent.

Learner-centric education must teach students to question, direct, and own their thinking.

AI’s closeness to human thought is seductive, but agency ensures we notice and steer our cognitive process.

Human agency is the ability to direct our own thinking. It’s not just a philosophical construct; it’s the everyday act of deciding what to learn, what to believe, and when to stop and think before accepting an answer. Agency is what keeps us from running on cognitive autopilot.

Artificial intelligence now offers to do much of that work for us. With a single prompt, we can receive elegant summaries and polished solutions that are so smooth and immediate that they can (and often do) lull

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