<div dir="ltr"><div>1982:</div><div>"That's the problem with machines, they can't think."</div><div>"Some programs will be thinking soon."</div><div>"Hehe. Won't that be grand? The computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop."</div><div><br></div><div>1999:</div>"And I say /your/ civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became /our/ civilization, which is what this is all about."<div><br></div><div>2024:</div><div>"As a large language model I..."</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Don't outsource your thinking to AI tools.<br>
Leticia Mooney Published Nov 30, 2024<br>
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If you outsource your thinking to AI tools, you are doing yourself and<br>
society an immense disservice.<br>
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Using an AI tool to outsource your thinking has a more destructive<br>
effect because you stop doing the 'hard work' of thinking, of<br>
deciding, of assessing information critically. When a computer will do<br>
it for you, it leads to a degradation of your capacity to think.<br>
There are already a significant number of people calling out this risk.<br>
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Evidence is already surfacing that it is already problematic in some<br>
professional areas. In one study an accounting firm relied too much on<br>
its AI tools, which resulted in an erosion of skill. Not only did the<br>
accountants lose the capacity to perform a task, but that skill<br>
erosion negatively impacted their clientele.<br>
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Given the AI train has already left the station, and we will simply<br>
have to sink or swim - much like we did with smartphones and the<br>
resulting addiction - your task now is to increase your AI literacy.<br>
Retaining your cognitive capacity is not just good for you. It's good<br>
for society. It means that you can teach your children how to think,<br>
and they will be better at life as a result - and more capable in the<br>
real world.<br>
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Just like smartphones have addicted so many people, as AI improves it<br>
is causing people to take the easy path and let AI do more and more<br>
of their thinking.<br>
This will only get worse as AI continues to improve and people<br>
hesitate to contradict AI statements.<br>
BillK<br>
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(Note: Bonus points will be awarded if you use AI to reply to this post). :)<br>
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