AI can summarize an email, but it can't make a genuine intellectual contribution. Right? Wrong, as Yascha Mounk found out
Arts & Letters Daily • 2/18/2026
Summary
Yascha Mounk discovered that AI can summarize an email but can also make a genuine intellectual contribution.
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