Every ‘AI makes you dumb!’ article gives people a tool, and the tool works and makes things easier, and then they take the tool away and people are less keen on doing things the hard way. Like any fucking tool. Give people a multiplication quiz, and yank their calculator away halfway through, and they’ll be surly about longhand math. Give people a geography quiz, and yank their map away halfway through, and they’ll mostly wish you hadn’t done that. Humans offload mental effort to external tools! What a fucking surprise.
This gets dangerous when it’s like, ‘doctors who used AI got worse at detecting cancer,’ and step one is giving doctors an AI that makes them better at detecting cancer, and then you take that away and they’re slightly worse at eyeballing things. Zero popular focus on the first part.
Horseshit.
Every ‘AI makes you dumb!’ article gives people a tool, and the tool works and makes things easier, and then they take the tool away and people are less keen on doing things the hard way. Like any fucking tool. Give people a multiplication quiz, and yank their calculator away halfway through, and they’ll be surly about longhand math. Give people a geography quiz, and yank their map away halfway through, and they’ll mostly wish you hadn’t done that. Humans offload mental effort to external tools! What a fucking surprise.
This gets dangerous when it’s like, ‘doctors who used AI got worse at detecting cancer,’ and step one is giving doctors an AI that makes them better at detecting cancer, and then you take that away and they’re slightly worse at eyeballing things. Zero popular focus on the first part.