This is true and we should never go to the point where all we are doing is prompting. Thinking and analyzing is a core human function, and we should not dig ourselves to be dumb and stupid
I agree.
A month back, I was brainstorming ideas with AI a lot, and it took me a while to figure this out: I was essentially outsourcing my thinking. Honestly, I felt extremely dumb after the sessions and kept blaming myself for becoming dumb, but I stopped using AI, went back to my non-AI routine, and ideas started popping back up.
This is where critical thinking needs to be a skill taught and learned. Too many people take information at face value. An AI that's 80/90% right is a great way to get duped - like the author at the end.
AI is unlikely to make people like me, or most already established professionals, lazy.
But it absolutely could affect younger people who are still learning and building fundamentals.
That raises a pretty serious question about regulating AI usage in education, and it’s surprising how little attention that discussion still gets.
We haven't even discussed as a society what might go wrong with LLMs, and we're already seeing what is going wrong. That's how hard we failed as a society.
Exactly, just like using Google instead of going to the local library, using GPS instead of paper maps, or saving phone numbers as contacts in your phone instead of remembering them.
The more tech we invent and use, the dumber and lazier we get.
That raises a pretty serious question about regulating AI usage in education, and it’s surprising how little attention that discussion still gets.
The more tech we invent and use, the dumber and lazier we get.