Book chapter, 2025
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Conference poster, 2026
When Curiosity Becomes Optional for Knowledge Creation
For centuries, knowledge has typically begun with curiosity. Questions came before answers, and discovery depended on uncertainty, exploration, and dialogue. That sequence is now beginning to change. As generative AI becomes an increasingly common starting point for learning, research, and creative work, answers often arrive before curiosity has the opportunity to develop. This raises a broader question than whether AI can generate knowledge: what happens when curiosity is no longer needed to begin creating it? This study explores how the widespread use of generative AI may reshape the human processes through which knowledge is produced. Rather than focusing on the capabilities or limitations of AI systems themselves, it examines how immediate access to AI-generated responses may influence questioning, exploration, collaboration, and intellectual risk-taking. Drawing on perspectives from education, law, philosophy, and human-centred technology, the project develops an interdisciplinary framework for understanding curiosity not simply as a personal characteristic but as an essential condition for creativity and knowledge creation. The central argument is that the most significant transformation brought about by AI may not be the automation of knowledge production, but the gradual reconfiguration of how knowledge begins. If curiosity becomes less necessary, the practices that sustain original thinking, collaborative inquiry, and meaningful discovery may also begin to change in subtle but important ways. By shifting attention from what AI produces to how it reshapes the conditions under which humans create knowledge, the project offers a new perspective on the future of learning, innovation, and humancentred technological development.
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Book anthology, 2025
Data Mining and Information Security: Proceedings of ICDMIS 2024, Volume 1