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At the latest Brunch Talk event, Marco V. Crivellaro delivered a lecture entitled “Is Classical Education Obsolete Because of AI?”, examining the role of classical education in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. His presentation focused on the rise of AI generated texts that are rhetorically persuasive yet not necessarily well grounded, and the new epistemological challenges this development poses for education and democratic public life.
Crivellaro argued that classical education offers three essential capacities in response: philological precision, rhetorical awareness, and historical consciousness. These disciplines cultivate the ability to distinguish between stylistic sophistication and substantive truth, thereby strengthening critical and interpretive judgment in a time of rapidly expanding automated content production.
The discussion also addressed how artificial intelligence can be integrated into higher education in a critical and reflective manner. Far from becoming obsolete, classical disciplines were presented as increasingly vital in equipping students with the intellectual tools needed to navigate an evolving and complex information environment.
