So long as generative AI is just a cognitive prosthesis for humans, I think the situation is similar to social media, or television, or print, or writing; something is lost, something is found. The new medium has its affordances, its limitations, its technicalities, it does create a new layer of idiocracy; but people who want to learn, can learn, and people who master the novelty, and becomes power users of the new medium, can do things that no one in history was previously able to do. In my opinion, humanity’s biggest AI problem is still the risk of being completely replaced, not of being dumbed down.
So long as generative AI is just a cognitive prosthesis for humans, I think the situation is similar to social media, or television, or print, or writing; something is lost, something is found. The new medium has its affordances, its limitations, its technicalities, it does create a new layer of idiocracy; but people who want to learn, can learn, and people who master the novelty, and becomes power users of the new medium, can do things that no one in history was previously able to do. In my opinion, humanity’s biggest AI problem is still the risk of being completely replaced, not of being dumbed down.