Wir überlassen uns bequemerweise immer mehr der Gnade der Technologie. Aber wir müssen verstehen, dass KI mit Daten arbeitet und dass Daten von Menschen bereitgestellt werden. Wenn wir dumm sind, werden unsere Daten diese Dummheit widerspiegeln.
Die KI hat getan, wozu sie programmiert ist, aber tun Sie das, wozu Sie geboren wurden? Du bist der Benutzer, das Ego. Und das Ego hat immer eine Wahl. Wenn Sie keine Wahl üben, gibt es keine Erhebung; dann gibt es keinen Unterschied zwischen Mensch und Stein.
https://acharyaprashant.org/en/articles/is-ai-making-us-dumb-1_f89dd7f1d
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The author’s thesis on AI challenges the standard „technological progress“ narrative by introducing the concept of „Historical Nepotism.“ He argues that while our tools are evolving exponentially, our internal wisdom remains primitive, effectively putting „missiles in the hands of children.“
In the context of the future, this suggests a dangerous bifurcation: a tiny elite of creators versus a mass population suffering from „brain rot“ due to outsourced cognition. If we continue to automate decision-making, we aren’t just losing skills; we are atrophying the very consciousness that defines our species.
In a future where AI handles all „thinking,“ what becomes the primary driver of human value?
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Not making people dumb, just making it easier not to think. Many people trust it more than they probably should.
>Is AI Making Us Dumb?
I’m not sure, let me ask chatgpt. /s
This was a mostly reasonable take I think https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iitq4Zrphdk
I believe it’s made work for me more efficient. I still need to go back and double check if substantively it’s correct, but I know that at least, everything at the surface level is fine (i.e. formatting).
In the same way that calculators made us technically dumber but potentially smarter.
Increasingly, LLMs are using data produced by LLMs in order to create their own data. A copy of a copy of a copy. And so on it goes.
Oh we were already dumb, but holding a smart-ass AI up next to us, we just look dumber.
Actually, AI is very useful for the society, it spreads the knowledge to everyone. It helps giving for example almost professional medical advises to everyone(ofc it needs to be double checked) fixing life long problems for the people that any local dumb doctors couldn’t figure out. Same with advices on legal problems, ordinary poor people could never afford themselves consultation of a professional lawyer or high end doctor, but now it is available instantly, personally tailored with just a click of a mouse.
AI is not making us dumb — it’s just exposing how comfortably dumb we are willing to be.
Blaming technology is the oldest escape. First it was books, then the internet, now AI. The pattern is the same — we don’t lose intelligence because of tools, we lose it because we stop using it.
Yes, AI runs on human data. But humans don’t just feed data into systems — systems quietly recondition humans. The more you depend on ready-made answers, the more allergic you become to thinking.
Intelligence is not in having answers. It’s in the capacity to sit with a question without rushing to outsource it.
AI didn’t reduce that capacity — our laziness did. AI just made it obvious.
Does it make people dumber, yes, is using it to make an article just as dumb? If not more, but yes.
I think peoples dependency on slop news articles are just as bad.
Socrates thought writing would make people forget things.
People thought calculators would make us bad at math.
People thought Google would make us stop remembering.
Now we think AI might make us stop thinking.
Maybe technology doesn’t make us dumb.
Maybe it changes what it means to be smart.
Let’s face it: not only AI, but even older and simpler technology could have that effect. The reason is, by opting to use the easy way we deprive ourselves of the struggle (and the mental, spiritual gain) that comes with not using technology.