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
@cwebber i saw that the other day. I found the author's aside about how they use it to summarize "hundreds" of papers a bit alarming.

@aeva @cwebber yes, he seems way too optimistic about the situation of "adults", himself included, using this technology.

Meanwhile, my university is making LLMs available for students on its platforms with the reasoning, quote:

"The available tools are intended to be used responsibly and treated as support in the process of acquiring knowledge and developing one’s own skills."

... and I want to eat my hat. Students supposed to develop their research skill are sąbotaged by the university.