Monday, April 27, 2026 | Online webinar
Co-hosted by the C+M Center and the READS Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Ruopeng An, Endowed Professor and C+M Center Director at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and Ethan Scherer, Director of the READS Lab at Harvard University, led Outsourcing the Mind, a webinar co-hosted by the C+M Center and the READS Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The discussion examined AI overreliance in reading, writing, thinking, and decision-making, and how people can retain judgment, depth, and creativity when using these tools.
The accompanying reading list addressed memory, learning, knowledge retention, creative work, and automation bias. It included research on AI-assisted writing and mathematics learning, as well as clinical examples involving radiology and colonoscopy.