La Voz de Galicia – December 14, 2025 →
These days, as I was finishing editing the syllabus for my upcoming class—where, following the university’s recommendation, I had to include a section on the course policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence—I found myself thinking about the pros and cons of that decision. Talking with my colleague, with whom I’ve been collaborating for five years and who belongs to an earlier generation than mine, we reflected on what it means to invite students to use AI or not, and on how their learning might change depending on our choice. It was a conversation that led me to think about how many things are lost along the way when we adopt a new technology…
I watch my mother doing the math—adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying—and I think about the difference between her generation and mine: the fact that I grew up already using a calculator, and that my ability to perform those operations is far worse than hers. I watch her in my garden, moving my plants around because, as she says, I have no idea where the sun rises or which light is best for each plant. I see her bewildered when we eat strawberries out of season, and I listen in awe when, during our walks, she calls every herb by its name. I know nothing of the things my mother knows so well.
I don’t really know what future generations will stop learning, or which skills they will no longer practice. Will they think less? Will they have fewer ideas? What I do know is that, in some way, new needs will emerge, and from them, new abilities. We will adapt to change in the same way our parents did… and along the way we will lose one kind of wisdom, but perhaps we will gain another—or at least, that’s what I want to believe, because there is no turning back: AI is here to stay.
