Over the past five weeks, this series has handed over a fairly demanding toolkit. Question the source. Notice the body's signal before the mind talks over it. Treat AI as a tutor rather than an oracle. Separate a sacred text from those who guard it. Ask whose interests a political claim, a news story, or a history book actually serves. Taken together, these are a genuine discipline, and, if practiced without care, they have a way of curdling into something that no longer serv

There is a temptation, among people who care about careful thinking, to treat artificial intelligence as either a saviour or a threat, and to reach for one of these two postures rather than doing the harder work of figuring out where the tool genuinely helps and where it genuinely harms. I want to resist both postures here. AI is neither the end of independent thought nor its salvation.