Tyler Cowen: Does AI Make Us Stupid?

“Do not panic,” writes Tyler Cowen. “The age of stupidity is not yet upon us—at least not compared to how stupid things already have been.” (Illustration by The Free Press; photo by Orlando via Getty Images)
A viral new research paper claims ChatGPT will stop us from thinking. Really?
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Does AI make us stupid? Does excessive use of ChatGPT turn you into an inattentive moron?
Those are the latest charges levied against these transformative new technologies, and the critics this time come from MIT. A new research paper, currently going viral on social media, alleges that when writers use ChatGPT to complete a task, their “cognitive activ…

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