Is AI Amplifying Cognition or Dismantling It? | ASU+GSV Summit 2026

Benjamin Riley (Cognitive Resonance), Dan Meyer (Amplify), Joseph Davis (Ready For Mathematics and KAITLab), and Joseph Wise (Distinctive Schools) join moderator Diane Tavenner (Futre.me) at the ASU+GSV Summit 2026 in Is AI Amplifying Cognition or Dismantling It? to examine whether AI in education is being designed to truly expand opportunity for underserved students.

AI is often framed as a productivity tool, but its most consequential role in education may be far more ambitious: the potential to serve as a true equalizer for students who have historically been least served by traditional systems. Used well, AI can expand access to high-quality support, personalize learning at scale, and help close opportunity gaps. Used poorly, it risks becoming another layer of convenience for adults while reinforcing the very inequities education seeks to solve.

This debate asks a harder question: not whether AI is powerful, but whether it is being intentionally designed to benefit the students who need it most.