By EdTech Current Editorial Team

The danger isn’t that AI gets things wrong. It’s that it makes us feel right.

Opinion. The views below are the editorial board's. Every new tool for thinking comes with an illusion attached. Calculators let us believe we were good at arithmetic. Search engines let us believe we knew things we had only located. Generative AI's illusion is more convincing than either, because it doesn't just hand us an answer. It hands us an explanation, in fluent prose and in our own idiom, and then it waits politely for the next question. That fluency is the trap. When an answer reads well, we take it as understanding. When we feel we understand, we stop doing the slow work that produces understanding. And when we stop doing that work, we need the tool a little more the next time. Call it the illusion circle: fluency feels like knowledge, the feeling replaces effort, and the missing effort deepens reliance. Each turn of the loop is comfortable. That's why it is hard to notice we're in one. This isn't a hypothetical The clearest evidence comes from a field…

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