What does it really mean to be intelligent in the age of artificial intelligence?Dr. Alan Coverstone joins the AI x Higher Ed Podcast to preview his upcoming University of Mary Washington talk, “Reclaiming Human Intelligence in the Age of AI: Plural Futures for Education and Society.”In this conversation, Coverstone challenges how we define intelligence — arguing that schools and universities have privileged computation, logic, and linguistic skills at the expense of the richer, plural ways humans actually know and create. He explores how AI disruption offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine education around agency, collaboration, and authentic problem solving.🎓 Topics include:- Why education must move beyond “who can compute best”- How students can develop agency in an AI-saturated world- Why the liberal arts may hold the key to AI-era learning- The danger of schools prioritizing what’s measurable over what’s meaningfulChapters:- 0:00 — Rediscovering What Makes Us Human- 0:48 — Introducing Dr. Alan Coverstone- 2:00 — What Is Intelligence, Really?- 3:15 — Reclaiming Human Intelligence- 7:00 — Why Schools Prioritize Measurable Intelligence- 9:30 — Beyond the Measurable: Rediscovering Human Potential- 13:00 — AI as an Opportunity for Redefining Learning- 15:00 — Building Student Agency and Authentic Learning- 19:00 — Rethinking Common Knowledge and Cultural Canon- 22:00 — From “Soft Skills” to Core Human Capacities- 24:00 — Student Agency, Motivation, and AI Misuse- 30:00 — Learning Beyond the Classroom- 32:00 — The Phone Debate: A Mirror for the AI Debate- 38:00 — Reimagining Education from the Ground Up- 40:00 — Higher Education’s Crossroads- 44:00 — Rediscovering the Purpose of the Liberal Arts- 48:00 — Practical Advice for Faculty- 52:00 — Closing Reflections📍 Dr. Coverstone will expand on these themes in his upcoming talk at UMW on October 29th.👉 Subscribe for more conversations at the intersection of AI and higher education.#AI #Education #HigherEd #HumanIntelligence #EdTech #AlanCoverstone #ArtificialIntelligence