# general intelligence (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover general intelligence. Page: Feed: --- ## [Theater](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/theater) _2026-08-21 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 Dating back to adolescence, I have loved going to the theater—seeing works of drama as well as what are generally called “musicals.” I went with my parents, friends, and often alone. When I was travelling to New York or London, I would often arrange my schedule so that I could see both a matinee and an evening performance on the same day. For decades, I saved the cover page… ## [Hedging Our Bets, Revisited: What a New Dataset of AI Developer Firms Tells Us About U.S.-China Concentration Risk](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/hedging-our-bets-revisited-what-a) _2026-08-17 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ How resilient is the broader U.S. innovation ecosystem if future breakthroughs depend on pathways beyond scaling ever-larger language models? ## [The Party's Gambit: How China's Worldview Shapes Its Pursuit of AI](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/the-partys-gambit-how-chinas-worldview) _2026-08-05 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ China’s history does not determine its approach to advanced AI, but it does influence the Party’s baseline assumptions. ## [Winning the AI Race Isn’t Just About Going Fast, It’s About Enduring the Risks Along the Way](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/winning-the-ai-race-isnt-just-about) _2026-07-31 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ Risk management and resilience to AI risk can and should be viewed as a potential source of national advantage. ## [The Genius Problem](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/the-genius-problem) _2026-07-31 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 Widely and mostly positively reviewed, Helen Lewis’s book The Genius Myth seeks to debunk the notion of genius—at least the view of genius as a person who possesses special—perhaps indeed unique —powers, abilities, capacities, insights, achievements, legacies. Lewis has made a persuasive claim that the label of “genius” has been bandied about too much; it needs to be… ## [What Can Business and Civil Society Do About Transformative AI Risk?](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/what-can-business-and-civil-society) _2026-06-25 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ How can nongovernmental institutions lead or support the management of AI safety and societal risks? ## [A Book that I Have Long Recommended—And Now, The Real Story](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/gandhirealstory) _2026-06-22 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 In my life, I’ve read a lot of books. Not sure how many…but when my wife and I moved some years ago from a house to an apartment, we gave away approximately 5,000 of them—and I am confident I’d read many of them. More on that later. Occasionally, I’m asked to recommend a book. I don’t find that an easy task—I skim too many books and have largely given up the reading of… ## [Genes, Jeans…and Jellybeans!](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/genesjeansjellybeans) _2026-06-16 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ ‍‍© Howard Gardner 2026 Williams College sculpture of Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other Though I’d be considered conservative on many educational matters, that would not accurately describe my views about the role in education of AI (artificial intelligence) and AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Not only do I think that—going forward—AI will play a very large role in… ## [The AI Revolution and Global Order](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/the-ai-revolution-and-global-order) _2026-06-11 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ What strategy should the United States pursue in the age of AI? ## [Harvard Over 65–Whoops 70!–Years](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/harvard-over-65whoops-70years) _2026-05-28 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 Harvard Yard It’s the beginning of my 66th year at Harvard. Before the advent of computer records, I used to quip that I had the largest cache of medical records at the university—seven volumes of written notes and medical tests. My family were immigrants from Nazi Germany—they escaped in the nick of time, arriving in New York on November 9, 1938, the night of the infamous… ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wBPpNeON57MQ) _2026-05-28 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Strategic Responses to a Cyber Emergency](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/strategic-responses-to-a-cyber-emergency) _2026-05-21 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ 2026 may prove a watershed year for AI-driven cyber risk. ## [Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Can A Marriage Finally be Consummated?](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/qualitative-quantitative) _2026-05-15 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ ‍© Howard Gardner 2026 ‍ ‍ When I was a beginning doctoral student in psychology—sixty years ago—there was a relatively sharp line between two kinds of research. One was strictly experimental: carefully selected and controlled samples and conditions, data readily analyzed, and often revealing clear cut, hopefully replicable results. The other approach was “softer”—focused on observation,… ## [How AI Can Erode Human Agency](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/how-ai-can-erode-human-agency) _2026-04-23 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ A new framework for measuring when humans lose decisionmaking power. ## [Do the Eyes Have It?](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/do-the-eyes-have-it) _2026-04-13 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 “Opa,” my ten-year-old granddaughter Faye said, in a questioning tone. “What is it like to be colorblind? What do you see? Can you learn to see colors?” The question itself did not surprise me, because we had talked about colorblindness in the past. Like numerous other children whom I’ve encountered over the decades, Faye had more than once tried to teach me to see and… ## [On Impact in Philanthropy: ](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/on-impact-in-philanthropynbsp-a-case-study-of-research-in-educationnbsp) _2026-04-08 · Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner · General - Howard Gardner_ A Case Study of Research in Education © Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner 2026 In ordinary communication, impact has two principal connotations: from physics , the force of a collision of two bodies; from human relations , how words or expressions affect our beliefs and emotions. Both of these connotations prove relevant to the philanthropic sector. In philanthropy, an organization, a set of… ## [Resilience as a Policy Approach for AI](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/resilience-as-a-policy-approach-for) _2026-04-03 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ Ideally, society will endure whatever is coming without great suffering or deterioration of core values—while still reaping the benefits of new technology. ## [Finding Common Ground in AGI Strategy Debates](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/finding-common-ground-in-agi-strategy) _2026-04-02 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ A diagnosis and prescription for humanity’s most consequential strategic challenge. ## [Internet Cutoffs and the Incentives in AI Incident Response](https://geopoliticsagi.substack.com/p/internet-cutoffs-and-the-incentives) _2026-03-26 · RAND · Geopolitics of AGI_ What a simple model reveals about the gap between having an off switch and using it. ## [Building a Curriculum on Genes](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/building-a-curriculum-on-genes) _2026-03-11 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 I’ve casually asserted that one could build an entire curriculum around Finding Your Roots —the title and theme of Henry Louis Gates’ well-received series on PBS. Gates interviews luminaries from various fields and, conversing with them and examining their genetic heritage, discovers surprising information about their families, often dating back centuries. Let’s say that… ## [The Fate of our Species in an AI-Infused Planet](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/the-fate-of-our-species-in-an-ai-infused-planet) _2026-02-06 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 Perhaps in every era—or at least in many eras—reflective individuals wonder whether their era is special—disruptive, and if so, in which benign or malevolent ways. Ours is no exception. Indeed, in the era of nuclear power (which can be mobilized for constructive or annihilatory ends), mass communication of all manner (salutary or destructive), powerful medical interventions… ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sd3RqV11fTYX) _2026-02-06 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [On Discussion and Debate When Democracy is Under Threat](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/on-discussion-and-debate-when-democracy-is-under-threat) _2026-01-20 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2026 Over the last few years, I have written and posted hundreds of blogs, covering a very wide range of topics. This one is different—it’s personal…and it’s political. Here’s the context: I am the son of German-Jewish parents who emigrated to the United States just in time. Indeed, Hilde and Rudolph Gaertner arrived in New York on November 9, 1938. This was Kristallnacht—the… ## [Children’s Museums: A Valuable Model for Education in the Era Of AI](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/childrensmuseums) _2025-12-23 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2025 Around 1975, I fell in love with children’s museums. Of course, they had been around for a while—but it was the Boston Children’s Museum —as conceived and curated by Michael Spock (the son of illustrious pediatrician Benjamin Spock)—that captured my heart. First located in a rambling house in Jamaica Plain, later in its own far more generous (even grand) quarters on the… ## [Marshall McLuhan: A Return Visit in the Age of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/marshall-mcluhan-a-return-visit-in-the-age-of-artificial-general-intelligence-agi) _2025-11-07 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2025 If you know the name Marshall McLuhan it’s likely for one of two reasons: He coined the powerful phrase, “the medium in the message.” He appears in a hilarious scene in Woody Allen’s award-winning movie, Annie Hall . (Please see Footnote #1 .) But in fact, half a century ago, McLuhan was arguably one of the most famous—and likely one of the most quoted—scholars in the world.… ## [The Mind’s New Science:](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/the-minds-new-science-an-ambitious-contemporary-effort) _2025-10-23 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ An Ambitious Contemporary Effort © Howard Gardner 2025 If you want a list of all the things that I am not good at, I can launch it…and my family and friends can add to it generously. But I may have a few talents. One of these is spotting promising trends and—with luck and a smattering of skill—nudging the trends in the right direction. Indeed, my first “popular” book, The Quest for Mind explicated… ## [Meetings: Are They Time Well Spent? ](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/meetings-are-they-time-well-spent) _2025-10-08 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2025 I don’t travel anymore. Or, more precisely, my wife Ellen and I don’t take airplanes anymore. Our last flight (in September 2022) was to honor the memory of a treasured friend. We still drive and take various forms of public transportation, but we spend upwards of 90% of our time at our home in Cambridge. We work there at our own pace, see family and friends, and go… ## [1945: An Epochal Year for Research and Education in the United States](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/qk8vwiibye6f9gtn1ms14r72xkzn2p) _2025-09-24 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ Mention the year 1945 to an historically-knowledgeable person—it’s likely immediately to evoke thoughts of “war” as well as “peace”. On May 8, 1945, following a successful bombing and ground assault on German-occupied lands, the Axis powers surrendered to the Allies. Then, months later, on September 2, 1945, following the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese leadership… ## [Multiple Intelligences: New Strands of Evidence from Neuroscience](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/multiple-intelligences-new-strands-of-evidence-from-neuroscience) _2025-09-11 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ Howard Gardner © 2025 Some necessary background Harvard Magazine Cover, September - October, 1990. Caption: “Brown with re research associates Benjamin Gardner, Wolfgang, and Ernie.” It’s well over half a century ago—in 1969—since I, a budding psychologist, first became interested in the question: Does the human BRAIN have anything to tell us about the human MIND? With the benefit of hindsight,… ## [Infinite UI: What's Really Different about GenAI Software](https://williamhuster.com/infinite-ui-what-really-different-about-genai-software/) _2025-09-07 · William Huster_ Originally published on research.thinknimble.com . This post explores how GenAI fundamentally changes software design by creating massive, explorable state spaces. People keep saying the paradigm shift with GenAI is about determinism versus nondeterminism, and I’ll admit that it bothers me. I think they’re pointing at the right thing but using the wrong words. The real difference is the sheer size… ## [The AI Onion: A Layered Approach to AI Integration](https://williamhuster.com/ai-onion-framework-layered-approach-to-ai-integration/) _2025-09-01 · William Huster_ Originally published on research.thinknimble.com . This framework helps founders and product teams sequence AI integration decisions from simple to complex. An Inspiration My mom came from a family of sharecroppers in Southern Maryland. She grew up in a tiny house with seven siblings who all spent long, hot summers working in tobacco fields. Harvesting tobacco is backbreaking labor: you bend all… ## [Eisenhower](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/eisenhower) _2025-08-27 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ When I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the 1950s, Dwight David Eisenhower—universally known as “Ike”—was the two-term president (1953-1961). I had nothing against Ike. I knew him as the General who had presided over the invasion of Normandy and been a hero in the Second World War, and that he had an appealing personality. But my parents were dyed-in-the-wool Democrats—as refugees from… ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HZiPaoNTLe7m) _2025-08-27 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [Comments from Colleagues ](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/2lmxvfubpvn1o93hyscmawx0pdjr3h) _2025-08-14 · Howard Gardner, Ellen Winner, Susan Engel, and Mindy Kornhaber · General - Howard Gardner_ I was very pleased that my recent blog, “ Five Minds…Rethinking Education in the Era of AI General Intelligence ” elicited comments and—with me largely in the background—a rather vigorous exchange among three individuals: my wife Ellen Winner (Emerita Professor at Boston College, and lifelong member of Harvard Project Zero) and longtime friends and colleagues Mindy Kornhaber (Emerita Professor at… ## [Books I Never Completed](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/books-i-never-completed) _2025-07-30 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2025 I am known principally as an author of books. While one may quarrel with the number usually cited—it’s safe to say that I’ve authored or co-authored over thirty of them. And I’ve lived long enough and written enough about my books that I can and should let them speak for themselves. (Please refer to my memoir and other titles under References below.) But in this essay, I… ## [Education in the Second Quarter of the Twenty-First Century: Some Speculations ](https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/education-in-the-second-quarter-of-the-twentieth-century-some-speculations) _2025-07-16 · Howard Gardner · General - Howard Gardner_ © Howard Gardner 2025 As compared to other sectors of our world, education changes very slowly. And that is not necessarily problematic. Our educational approaches—from kindergarten through university—have evolved over many decades; educators (schoolteachers, professors) tend to remain in their positions; and it is not easy to change buildings, recreational areas, daily schedules, annual… ## [Thoughts on AI 2027](https://williamhuster.com/thoughts-on-ai-2027/) _2025-04-29 · William Huster_ This is a quick reaction to: ai-2027.com , which forecasts a very rapid timeline for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). I’d say the likelihood of a “fast takeoff” scenario like this has greatly increased since ChatGPT. The big breakthrough of the past decade is that scaling up the neural net also scales up intelligence. The AI 2027 scenario is based on…