Seventy years after the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was first proposed at the Dartmouth Conference, the technology has finally moved from academia into society. It is no longer a promise or an experimental tool reserved for tech giants and it is now a ubiquitous, silent infrastructure reshaping how we work, learn, and decide.

In an opinion piece published in the online newspaper ECO, INESC-ID researchers Inês Lynce and Luísa Coheur reflect on AI’s impact on education, work, human cognition, and on what makes this moment different in nature from previous cycles of technological innovation. For the researchers, the central question is no longer whether AI has arrived, but what kind of society we want to build with it: one that deepens inequalities, or one that uses technology to enhance human capabilities.

Read the full article in ECO (in PT): here