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Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?

  • Written by R. Alexander Bentley, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?Technological innovation has always relied on experts collaborating across time and geography.EtiAmmos/iStock via Getty Images

In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame that a bolt slides into – in a slab of sandstone by pecking at it with a rounded stone....

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