Among a thousand other uses, these AIs more or less allow you to start outsourcing thinking itself. The concept of cognitive offloading, pushed to an absurd – but suddenly logical – extreme.

The real risk may not be that we outsource too much thinking, but that we surrender our agency to decide which thoughts are ...

you actually lose your thinking ability to some extent.” And if we outsource judgement, he added, “we will lose the ability to think critically.” And yet, of course, the potential for AI to ...