Chapter 7
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
—Marie Curie
Among the wide range of thinking skills that make us the humans we are, few have been made more important by the AI age than curiosity, the desire or will to learn.
All humans are born with an instinct for curiosity; studies have measured curiosity in four-month-old babies.1 If you’ve spent any time around infants, you’ve seen how different things capture their attention, and looking time is one of the earliest indicators of infant curiosity: the more time kids spend looking at something, particularly novel objects, and the more interest they show in novel stimuli, the more likely it is that they ...
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