Status is accruing to those who are most AI-enabled, so it was welcome to see this piece of research land last week - on the consequences to human cognition on over use of AI. An experiment involved tracking neural connectivity of different groups of participants separated by their exposure to AI. Turns out, critical thinking skills atrophy through
over reliance on the easy answers provided by your friendly chat companion. There’s probably something in this but we’ve heard the story of
The End of Thinking (Again) before.