Key points

The real frontier of AI is the pause between knowing and understanding.

Intelligence endures where inquiry outlasts certainty.

Our future mind isn't built by answers alone, but by the architecture of questioning.

In a recent paper titled The Philosophic Turn for AI Agents , Oxford philosopher Philipp Koralus offers something rare in the age of algorithmic certainty—a pause. And this single word is fodder for some deep analysis, so let's dig into it.

Artificial intelligence , he says, should stop trying to persuade us and start giving us more room to think. Koralus calls for a kind of Socratic AI, one that asks clarifying questions instead of expectorating rapid answers. At its core lies what he terms the "agency–autonomy dilemma." As we increasingly delegate decision

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