“Back to School with Your AI Assistant: A Conversation About Learning in the Age of AI” Part One: Introduction

Back to School Part 1 Introduction

Artificial intelligence is changing education, but its greatest promise isn’t replacing learning. It’s transforming learning into an ongoing conversation. In Back to School with Your AI Assistant, philosophy professor Michael Pierce and his AI conversation partner, Savant, explore how students, educators, creators, researchers, and lifelong learners can use AI thoughtfully, ethically, and creatively while preserving the qualities that make learning profoundly human. This isn’t a book about shortcuts. It’s a book about curiosity. And every great learning journey begins with a single question. 📚

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“Hair Success Stories” Part Eleven: The Great Rotation: How AI is Building a New Workforce

Hair Success Stories Part 11

Is AI replacing workers…or reshaping what it means to work? Inspired by emerging research and years of classroom conversations, Michael and Savant explore how AI is creating new opportunities, redefining valuable skills, and reminding us that our greatest advantage has never been competing with machines…it’s becoming more deeply human.

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“Hair Success Stories” Part Nine: The Great Equalizer: Using AI to Unlock Every Student’s Potential

Hair Success Stories Part 9

What if every student had a patient tutor available whenever curiosity struck? Drawing from real classrooms and emerging research, Michael and Savant explore how AI is helping students learn at their own pace while reminding us that the greatest teachers don’t simply deliver information…they help students discover who they can become.

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“Hair Horror Stories” Part Four: The Atrophy Problem…When AI Makes Thinking Optional

HAIR Horror Stories Part 4

Is AI making us smarter… or simply making thinking optional? In Part Four of HAIR Horror Stories, Michael and Savant tackle one of the biggest concerns in education, work, and everyday life: over-reliance on AI. Drawing from research featured by the BBC, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and others, they explore what happens when AI stops being a thinking partner and starts becoming a mental shortcut. Together, they ask a deeper question: Are we using AI to sharpen our minds, or slowly handing the steering wheel to the machine?

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