In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...

Studies show that AI may be eroding people’s critical thinking skills – which Socrates and Plato certainly would not have gotten behind, Papandreou argues.

Xenophon's treatment of Socrates in his "Apology" can be explained by a similar polemical motive. While Plato acknowledges that Socrates failed in conventional terms, and develops an alternative ...