![]() ![]() Homework is intended as a means for students to learn new concepts, but when an AI reduces the incentive to learn new things in the form of homework, it risks making countless new students dumber than the previous generation.īecause intelligence is so fundamental to our identity as human beings, and because it separates us most strikingly from other animal species, AI risks making us dumber because it allows us to outsource higher forms of intelligence and cognition to technology. Today when we read reports of high school students outsourcing entire homework problems to ChatGPT, it points to a deeper societal problem that AI will create. The power of AI to substitute for human cognition is what's worrying. ![]() Cars and home appliances allowed us to expend less physical strength, and live easier lives.īut the stark difference now is that we're slowly outsourcing more higher order cognitive and intellectual capabilities to technology. How Artificial Intelligence will make us dumber in the long term:ĭo you remember the time you could memorize many contact numbers before mobile phones came into our lives? Do you remember how you were more conscious about spelling words correctly before spellcheck software became mainstream? Or how it's become harder to remember traffic routes in a given city after Google Maps came?īefore the advent of computers, we had already started outsourcing our physical capabilities to technology. ![]()
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