Intellectual Stewardship: Re-adapting Human Minds for Creative Knowledge Work in the Age of AI
Jianwei Zhang

TL;DR
This paper introduces the concept of intellectual stewardship as a human-centered framework to guide responsible and creative knowledge work in AI-augmented learning environments, emphasizing ethical, contextual, and community considerations.
Contribution
It proposes five core principles for adapting human minds to AI-enhanced knowledge work, emphasizing wisdom, responsibility, and social responsibility in learning practices.
Findings
Framework guides responsible AI-infused learning practices
Highlights importance of ethical and contextual awareness
Encourages development of meta-level dispositions for wisdom
Abstract
Background: Amid the opportunities and risks introduced by generative AI, learning research needs to envision how human minds and responsibilities should re-adapt as AI augments or automates various tasks and enters daily learning, knowledge work, and social life. Approach: Drawing on theories of learning, intelligence, and knowledge creation, this conceptual paper proposes intellectual stewardship as a human-centered, conceptually grounded framework for advancing creative learning practices with AI. Key points: Students and teachers work as responsible governors of intellectual processes distributed across human and artificial systems, guided by five core principles. Being knowledge-wise involves understanding the evolving state of knowledge and taking purposeful actions to advance it. Being intelligence-wise emphasizes making informed choices about how to orchestrate distributed…
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