ITEC Fall Conference 2026

In 1997 a computer beat the world chess champion, and within a week people were explaining that chess had never really been about intelligence anyway. We've done that every time since. Face recognition isn't understanding. Composing isn't knowing what you made. Researchers call it the AI effect: the moment a machine can do something, we stop counting it as intelligence.
So where do you put the line?
Working in small groups with a physical card deck, you'll sort ten human capacities from least to most uniquely human and discover your table can't agree, and that the argument was never about AI at all. Then you'll rank them again on your own and take your ranking to an AI that ranked the same ten, and argue with it about the biggest gap.
You'll leave with one capacity you'd fight to protect, one change you'll make to protect it, and a card deck you can print and run with your own students.