{"id":309726,"date":"2026-03-02T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:35:06","slug":"opinion-ais-best-use-is-enhancing-human-judgment-so-study-liberal-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309726\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | AI\u2019s best use is enhancing human judgment. So study liberal arts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2DQRZ3EZUJAABGEYLR3CS6V5UQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Greg Weiner, a professor of political science, is the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MD6WCZNEWBGALCLYQNE3Y7ZQZA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Judging by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techedmagazine.com\/universities-surge-in-ai-majors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proliferation of programs of study<\/a> in artificial intelligence, higher education is learning exactly the wrong lesson from that technology\u2019s transformation of the workplace. Artificial intelligence makes purely technical skills less valuable and human judgment more essential. There has never been a more powerful case for the liberal arts, a kind of education that cultivates human discernment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Weiner, a professor of political science, is the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Judging by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,163625,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-309726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-partner-exclude","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}