The Stewardship: Why Education Must Be Rebuilt for the Age of Artificial Intelligence — and How

Description

The Stewardship argues that incremental fixes — better tools, tighter rules, a return to rigor — are answers to the wrong problem. The challenge is architectural. If knowledge transmission is no longer the institution’s comparative advantage, the institution has to be rebuilt around what it can still do that AI cannot: develop bounded competence, cultivate creative and critical judgment, teach people to direct AI rather than be replaced by it, and form the character on which all of it depends.

From that diagnosis the book builds a concrete model — four developmental layers, sustained not across four years but across a working life — and confronts the objections it invites, including the uncomfortable fact that the AI now entering classrooms is engineered to flatter learners rather than challenge them.

Written for leaders in business, government, and education who need to understand what has actually changed before deciding what to do about it, The Stewardship is less a forecast than a design — and an argument the reader is asked to test on its substance, not accept on its phrasing.