BigAI is not just job loss, digital imperialism, environmental harm and a widening wealth gap. It's an emerging cognitive crisis.

We know this predatory industry seeks to engineer a dependency on 'cognitive offloading', but it's kids that may be taking the real hit. The use of this software may be robbing children of critical developmental milestones, weakening growing brains in ways that could prove to be irreversible.

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

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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
@JulianOliver You say emerging. I'd say it started with television.