The article discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on human cognitive abilities, highlighting concerns that reliance on technology may be causing a decline in intelligence. It references the Flynn effect, indicating a reversal in the trend of rising IQs among new generations, particularly in the UK. Psychologist Robert Sternberg emphasizes that the main worry is not about creativity, but rather that AI may already be affecting our intelligence. As technology takes over more cognitive tasks, experts fear for the future of human intellectual engagement.
Offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence has become second nature, but with mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining, experts fear this impulse is driving the trend.
The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence, but that it already has.
Some of the most compelling arguments that we are becoming less intelligent draw from several studies, particularly those examining the Flynn effect.
James Flynn himself showed that the average IQ of a 14-year-old dropped by more than two points between 1980 and 2008.
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