Artificial Stupidity: The Ignorance That Ignores Itself

In every era, humanity has built tools whose power outstrips its wisdom — but rarely has the gap carried such consequence as now, when artificial intelligence quietly shapes hiring, justice, lending, and health before most people have paused to ask what it is or who it serves. Paula Schmitt's examination of this moment names something more troubling than ordinary ignorance: a willful, convenient unknowing that protects those who profit from speed and insulates decision-makers from accountability. The question she leaves hanging is whether society will choose comprehension before the costs of i