Yes: Is AI making us dumber?
Early research into how generative AI affects our brains has resurfaced the same talking points: overreliance on AI will weaken mental persistence, flatten creativity, atrophy our critical thinking skills, and degrade our relationships. Experts in machine learning, creativity, social behavior I spoke to said we can glean some insight from the fallout of past innovations, but the totalizing pervasiveness of AI is unparalleled.
There are already too many low information voters. I cannot see that AI will make them any more dumber!
“Early research into how generative AI affects our brains has resurfaced the same talking points…”
How surprising to see “scientists” desperately trying to publish so they won’t perish, announce a shocking finding based on their “early” research. If you look back into the last 50+ years you’ll see they said exactly the same thing about comic books, transistor radios, computers, personal computers, video games, the Internet, phones, social media, and now AI.
The intelligent individual will now wonder if words on a page or words on a screen can actually affect the human brain in any measurable way.
Gun control, climate change and Covid, my friends. Keep these things in mind, and remember that lying liars lie.
“The intelligent individual will now wonder if words on a page or words on a screen can actually affect the human brain in any measurable way.”
Socrates thought that writing would atrophy thinking and erode critical thought and memory.
I remembered that but had to Google whether it was Socrates or Aristotle. I must be getting more dumber.
I blame comic books.
L – WATCH: Why AI in the classroom is a catastrophe | Sophie Winkleman [ARC 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFp5-i5fzyQ
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If you have children, grandchildren or even simply empathize with children, because you were one… a profound commentary.