Are We Getting Dumber? A Look at LLMs and the Eternal Anxiety About IntelligenceI've seen a lot of conversation lately about people getting dumber because of LLM usage. Studies and research papers documenting the loss of executive function, critical thinking, and memory, thanks to people offshoring their brain power to LLM agents. My gut instinct was to compare this to the time when teachers would tell you not to use Wikipedia for your assignments because it took away from your research ...

Are We Getting Dumber? A Look at LLMs and the Eternal Anxiety About IntelligenceI've seen a lot of conversation lately about people getting dumber because of LLM usage. Studies and research papers documenting the loss of executive function, critical thinking, and memory, thanks to people offshoring their brain power to LLM agents. My gut instinct was to compare this to the time when teachers would tell you not to use Wikipedia for your assignments because it took away from your research ...

After last week’s piece on whether AI is actually making us dumber, I got two outstanding pieces of feedback:My point about people’s cognition adapting to meet their society’s needs may hold water for fully developed adults; but what about the children who haven’t yet developed critical thinking, reasoning, and the ability to distinguish truth from hallucination?As I said in the piece:My personal opinion is, there are only two measurable things that actually do impact a generation's ment...

After last week’s piece on whether AI is actually making us dumber, I got two outstanding pieces of feedback:My point about people’s cognition adapting to meet their society’s needs may hold water for fully developed adults; but what about the children who haven’t yet developed critical thinking, reasoning, and the ability to distinguish truth from hallucination?As I said in the piece:My personal opinion is, there are only two measurable things that actually do impact a generation's ment...