[ExI] AI and tech might be making people stupid

[BillK]

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
>From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance
seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function
independently …
Sophie McBain   Sat 18 Oct 2025

<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology>
Quote:
The study’s participants, who were all enrolled at MIT or nearby
universities, were asked, right after they had handed in their work,
if they could recall what they had written. “Barely anyone in the
ChatGPT group could give a quote,” Kosmyna says. “That was concerning,
because you just wrote it and you do not remember anything.”

Alongside the journalist requests, she received more than 4,000 emails
from around the world, many from stressed-out teachers who feel their
students aren’t learning properly because they are using ChatGPT to do
their homework. They worry AI is creating a generation who can produce
passable work but don’t have any usable knowledge or understanding of
the material.

What worries Miles and Clement is not only that their students are
permanently distracted by their devices, but that they will not
develop critical thinking skills and deep knowledge when quick answers
are only a click away.
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Go on - Show your age and complain about the kids these days!  :)
BillK