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The Coming Importance of Deliberate Cognitive Exercise – Chris Yeh

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One of the dangers that has folks worried about the heavy use of AI is the possibility that our cognitive skills will atrophy from lack of use. Wall Street Journal tech reporter Sam Schechner recently wrote an essay describing how reliance on ChatGPT had eroded his skills (here’s a link to a non-paywalled article about Schechner’s essay). He’s not alone in this concern. One of the most consistent fears I hear from audiences around the world is that over-reliance on AI will degrade our human mental capacity, and the worry is greatest among parents who fear for AI’s impact on their children. The danger of AI-abetted mental atrophy is real. But it is not new, and it is solvable. I am old enough to remember the panic people felt about how calculators and computers would stunt human mathematical ability. Or later, how the internet would make plagiarism inevitable and stunt our writing ability. Each of these fears had some basis in reality, but we quickly found ways to address them. In mathe

One of the dangers that has folks worried about the heavy use of AI is the possibility that our cognitive skills will atrophy from lack of use. Wall Street Journal tech reporter Sam Schechner recently wrote an essay describing how reliance on ChatGPT had eroded his skills ( here’s a link to a non-paywalled article about Schechner’s essay ). He’s not alone in this concern. One of the most consistent fears I hear from audiences around the world is that over-reliance on AI will degrade our human mental capacity, and the worry is greatest among parents who fear for AI’s imp

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