🧠 I do not want your brains to rot
An email I sent to the team
I am increasingly concerned about the effects of AI on our thinking abilities. In an email to my team, I expressed my worry and wanted to share my thoughts on the matter. The visual summary of an academic paper created by AI serves as an example of this concern. In my previous article, I defined cognitive offloading as a deliberate strategy that involves delegating tasks without any cost.
Cognitive surrender, however, is a different phenomenon where one abandons reasoning without proper consideration. With the advancements in AI models and their increasing usage, there is a possibility that surrender could become more common. While AI may make us more productive, it raises the question of whether we might be losing our individuality.
A recently published, yet unreferenced paper discusses the concept of cognitive divergence, which refers to the decline in our cognitive practices such as attention span and reading habits, even before the introduction of AI. Now, with the help of advanced AI, we tend to offload simpler and simpler tasks, thereby weakening the practices that help maintain our cognitive abilities.
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