Intellectual Stewardship: Re-adapting Human Minds for Creative Knowledge Work in the Age of AI
Background: Amid the opportunities and risks introduced by generative AI, learning research needs to envision how human minds and responsibilities should re-adapt as AI augments or automates various tasks and enters daily learning, knowledge work, and social life. Approach: Drawing on theories of learning, intelligence, and knowledge creation, this conceptual paper proposes intellectual stewardship as a human-centered, conceptually grounded framework for advancing creative learning practices with AI. Key points: Students and teachers work as responsible governors of intellectual processes distributed across human and artificial systems, guided by five core principles. Being knowledge-wise...
| Authors | Jianwei Zhang |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 18 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 April 2026 |
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