AI & Cognitive Diminishment
★ The real danger for children with AI in education is "cognitive stunting".
"AI doesn't outsource your tasks, it outsources your mind." ~ Anonymous
"The difference between AI and pre-AI. . . . Google gave you 4 million web sites that were the answer to . . . [your] question. . . .
Today, ChatGPT will give one very articulate answer . . . and it will position that answer as the truth.
If you are not the most intelligent man alive, or woman alive, you'll believe it. . . . Very few of us go back to ChatGPT and say, "Where the f**k did you get that from?
"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." ~ Aldous Huxley
"The [AI] machines aren’t just taking over our work — they’re taking over our minds." ~ Nicolas Hulscher | Source
"The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence, but that it already has." ~ Robert Sternberg, Psychology professor at Cornell University | Source
"If we look through the lens of neuroplasticity, use of AI’s LLMs is causing neural de-evolution." ~ Jefferey Jaxen | Source
"Cognitive offloading, and the resulting loss of critical thinking skills, is leading us straight into idiocracy." ~ Metta Zetty