A developer released Socrates, a version 1.1.0 AI agent designed as a Socratic tutor that teaches students by asking questions and never supplies answers or writes deliverables. The agent, which runs …
LifeOS is shipping a Socratic AI agent called Socrates in its next release, designed to ask students questions rather than give them answers, according to the company. The agent's prompt instructs it …
The US Army's Command and General Staff College launched the Socrates Project, a new assessment method requiring students to use an artificial intelligence agent named Socrates to generate papers thro…
A personal essay argues that education's response to AI mirrors its historical reactions to writing and calculators, with the Higher Education Policy Institute's 2026 student survey finding that 95% o…
A developer argues that Socrates was the first and best prompt engineer, drawing parallels between Socratic questioning and modern LLM prompting techniques. The post maps six Socratic question types t…
Adam Belton, creator of ThoughtForm, explains that his AI-powered tool, initially designed as a writing aid, is actually a conversational thinking partner. He argues that the real problem it solves is…
A commentator reflects on the four layers of cognitive crutches—language, writing, computers, and generative AI—noting that each layer offloads memory and processing, and that AI introduces probabilis…
The category of 'AI writing' is temporary as AI becomes embedded in everyday writing tools, argues Techstrong.ai contributor Mike Vizard, responding to Bret Stephens' plea against AI use. Vizard conte…
Bret Stephens' New York Times opinion piece 'I'm Begging You: Never Write With A.I.' argues that writing with AI is 'mentally enfeebling,' but Brad Feld, writing on his blog, counters that such argume…
A growing backlash against AI is evident in public sentiment, particularly on platforms like TikTok, where users express visceral hatred for the technology. The author argues that Silicon Valley under…
A developer criticizes the concept of LLM-wiki, a pattern for building personal knowledge bases using large language models, arguing that it degrades information and undermines genuine learning. The c…
Hexo Labs released Socrates, an open-source multi-agent protocol that pairs a tool-using research agent with a question-only advisor, improving MLE-bench Kaggle competition scores by an average of 55.…
A developer built philosopher-council, an LLM deliberation engine where 11 philosophers act as sub-agents to debate questions and produce scored, auditable recommendations. The project demonstrates fi…
Persona Atlas, a tool developed during the "build-small" hackathon, transforms public figures into measurable behavioral portraits by having a small-model agent research them online and answer open-en…
A new philosophical essay draws a direct parallel between Socrates' method of drawing out truth through dialogue and the modern practice of prompt engineering for large language models. The author arg…
A new AI safety researcher has raised the question of how humans can judge the output of an Artificial General Intelligence, particularly in ethical and philosophical disputes. The researcher warns th…