How AI Sets Limits for Human Aspiration

We are watching “intelligence” being redefined as the tasks that an artificial intelligence can do. Time and again, generative AI is pitted against human counterparts, with textual and visual outputs measured against human abilities, standards, and exemplars. AI is asked to mimic, and then to better, human performance on law and graduate school admission tests, advanced placement exams and more—even as those tests are being abandoned because they perpetuate inequality and are inadequate to the task of truly measuring human capacity...