Critical thinking skills have been going downhill for a while now. AI is just going to accelerate that in some ways. I honestly don't know how people are gonna learn to read and write in the future. It's gonna be a completely different way of learning.
It is. I remember teasing my mother decades ago - she was an English teacher - that eventually humans would stop being able to read. The condition we were in for most of our time as a species. I just didn’t think it would happen so fast
No kidding. And you know what's interesting is that I'm guilty of not reading nearly as much as I used to. I listen to a lot of my stuff on audible and even when I read on Substack I listen to it instead of reading it. Lol
As we let AI take over more tasks, our brains kind of go on autopilot, trusting technology without questioning it. It's like a slow fade of our cognitive muscle, and before we know it, we won’t even spot the flaws in what AI is churning out. Admittedly, this happens to me now ugh. The only difference is I am more self-aware. We were promised a world of infinite variety when the internet emerged, but it seems like everything’s become a recycled version of the same few ideas. AI tools, like many tech innovations, can create more uniformity in our work, not necessarily more creativity.
Critical thinking skills have been going downhill for a while now. AI is just going to accelerate that in some ways. I honestly don't know how people are gonna learn to read and write in the future. It's gonna be a completely different way of learning.
It is. I remember teasing my mother decades ago - she was an English teacher - that eventually humans would stop being able to read. The condition we were in for most of our time as a species. I just didn’t think it would happen so fast
No kidding. And you know what's interesting is that I'm guilty of not reading nearly as much as I used to. I listen to a lot of my stuff on audible and even when I read on Substack I listen to it instead of reading it. Lol
I am too. I’m now watching way more movies through Criterion but my reading pile isn’t going down very fast.
My pile just keeps getting bigger. There's always so much more I should be reading. 📖
As we let AI take over more tasks, our brains kind of go on autopilot, trusting technology without questioning it. It's like a slow fade of our cognitive muscle, and before we know it, we won’t even spot the flaws in what AI is churning out. Admittedly, this happens to me now ugh. The only difference is I am more self-aware. We were promised a world of infinite variety when the internet emerged, but it seems like everything’s become a recycled version of the same few ideas. AI tools, like many tech innovations, can create more uniformity in our work, not necessarily more creativity.
Thank you for the conversation, David.
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Thanks for your, as always, thoughtful comments.