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2026
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| Linkit: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19106892 |
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- <p>Abstract:</p> <p>In a world where English has seemingly become its sole gateway, millions of thinkers and researchers have had to abandon their true voices to be heard. But generative AI is changing this equation. It is no longer necessary to master another's language to join the global dialogue; we can now speak in our own tongue and be understood by our own will. This radical transformation liberates liberal education from the task of transmitting language as the sole medium of knowledge, and refocuses it on its higher mission: the cultivation of consciousness.</p> <p>This paper introduces the A-B.F-N model, which distinguishes between:</p> <p>· The functional level (B): the level of information transfer, skills, and languages. This level can be performed and with increasing efficiency by artificial intelligence (Bₐ).</p> <p>· The sovereign level (F): the level of critical consciousness, ethical judgment, the capacity to create meaning, and existential questioning. This level is the core of our humanity, and it must become the heart of liberal education.</p> <p>In the very near future, we will no longer need to learn a language in order to understand or be understood. The machine will do that. This does not mean that education becomes futile; it means its role has changed radically. Its role is no longer to fill minds with information (B), but to cultivate consciousness (F). We need an education that teaches students how to think, not what to think. How to make ethical decisions in a complex world, and how to preserve their identity while engaging in a global dialogue. We need an education that produces free citizens in the classical sense of liberal education but citizens who are also free from the hegemony of a single language over their thought.</p> <p>The paper draws on:</p> <p>1. Neuroscientific evidence: A study by Wilcox et al. (2026) demonstrates that advanced consciousness (F) emerges from complex neural network integration a capacity that can be cultivated through appropriate education.</p> <p>2. Evidence from the philosophy of language: The researcher's personal experience, as an Algerian writing in English with the aid of AI, shows that the machine (Bₐ) can serve identity (F) without dissolving it. It is a practical case demonstrating that translation is not replacement of the self.</p> <p>3. A philosophical vision: The model provides a theoretical framework answering the question, What do we teach? in the age of the machine. The answer: we teach meaning, ethics, and critical consciousness everything that makes us human.</p> <p>The paper concludes that the greatest challenge facing liberal education today is not technical, but philosophical. Do we have the courage to redefine our role as educators from transmitters of information to facilitators of consciousness? If artificial intelligence has returned our true voices to us, then we must return education to its true purpose: graduating human beings capable of thought, not merely of information retrieval.</p>