I recently read that millennials (the students I taught!) might be the last generation to be able to #think and write without using #AI. So I gave #chatGPT the following prompt:

"generate a literature review with links to sources and an extensive executive summary of peer reviewed research regarding the possibility that using large language models diminishes the human ability to think well"

My write-up is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/is-ai-eroding-153932626

@hrheingold Here's an interesting article from Psychology Today that is related, published a few days ago.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Psychology Today