Spoiler Alert: No, unless…
Like all tools — especially brain-enhancing tools like encyclopedias, the internet, spreadsheets, and your smart colleagues — LLMs come with a warning:
AI is not a substitute for you.
MIT just published a study indicating that using AI for writing tasks significantly reduces neural engagement and memory retention over time, leading to what researchers call “cognitive debt.”
The AI doomsayers are holding it up as evidence of how AI is making us dumb.
Well, are you dumber now because your phone has your friends’ contact information? Are you dumber now because you can Google “how to fill out my 1040” (I was so tempted to write “hos long to die in cold”)? Are you dumber now because your colleagues know QuickBooks better than you, so you ask them to look over your work?
It’s not a question of whether our tools are making us dumber. That’s a bad question.
It’s a question of whether we allow our tools to make us dumber.
And that’s up to you. Not AI.
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