My talk from Perusall Exchange 2025 about Plato's Phaedrus. What do we make of the striking similarity between Socrates’s concern about preserving the value of oral communication in the face of the “impropriety of writing” and our current moment of concern in the face of generative AI technology with an astonishing capacity to summarize and synthesize cultural data?
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My talk from Perusall Exchange 2025 about Plato's Phaedrus. What do we make of the striking similarity between Socrates’s concern about preserving the value of oral communication in the face of the “impropriety of writing” and our current moment of concern in the face of generative AI technology with an astonishing capacity to summarize and synthesize cultural data?