Cognitive Revolution - How AI is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions
Cognitive Revolution and the Age of AI by Jiajie Zhang
Episode notes
This is the podcast for "The Cognitive Revolution - How AI is Reorganizing Intelligence, Expertise, and Institutions", 2026, Jiajie Zhang, Open Intelligence Press.
Book Synopsis:
Intelligence is no longer confined to the human mind. It is becoming shared, distributed, and increasingly close to free. This changes everything.
For centuries, our institutions—universities, healthcare systems, corporations—have been built on a simple assumption: that intelligence resides within individuals.
That assumption is now breaking.
Artificial intelligence is not just automating tasks. It is transforming cognition itself—redistributing thinking across humans and machines, reshaping expertise, and challenging the foundations of how knowledge is created, evaluated, and applied.
In Cognitive Revolution, Jiajie Zhang presents a ...