Ep.2 with Professor Kaska | Is AI...
Ep.2 with Professor Kaska | Is AI Making Us Lazy Thinkers? The Future of Learning, Agency and Metacognition
Not a Stupidogenic Age Podcast por Cheer Zhu, Elisa Kuang
T1 · E2
3 jul 2026
01:03:34
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While it’s tempting to let AI handle everything from brainstorming essays to planning lessons, have you ever paused to ask: What is this doing to the way we grow, learn, and even see ourselves?

In this episode, we sit down with Professor Kaska, a leading researcher in AI and education at UCL whose work spans cognitive science, pedagogy, and AI ethics. With a background that moves from acting and linguistics into AI and education, she brings a uniquely lens to a very technological conversation.

Drawing on research, classroom experience, and policy discussions, she offers important advice, thoughts, at times, challenging perspective on how generative AI reshapes not just what we learn, but how we think and who we become in the process.

Her work often pushes bac ... 

Palabras clave
AI
Education
Cognitive Offloading
Metacognitive Competency