Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 day agoActivities of Daily Thinking in the Age of AI
AI's outsourcing of cognitive tasks may erode independent thinking capacity.
The story of technology is the story of continual disruption and displacement. New systems and processes send some skills into obsolescence, opening the way for new skills and workflows. Generative AI has triggered the latest "de-skilling." But chatbot technology isn't only transforming jobs and shifting our relationship with information itself. It is also inviting us to relinquish our cognitive independence and bring about a sort of dispossession that is unprecedented.