Artificial intelligence is not merely changing how knowledge is accessed but raising fundamental questions about what knowledge is, who creates it, and what role human cognition plays when machine systems can produce plausible outputs across virtually every knowledge domain. The Sutras' concern with viveka — the discriminative intelligence that can distinguish the real from the apparent — is more urgently needed in an environment of AI-generated content than it has ever been. What AI cannot do is understand; what humans must protect is not the capacity to retrieve information but the capacity to think.
Each step builds on the last.