The article discusses the implications of AI, like ChatGPT, on students' writing habits and cognitive development. Experts suggest that outsourcing writing tasks could lead to diminished intellectual capabilities, as the brain adapts by losing skills and information not actively used. Historical examples, like the physical changes in London cab drivers' brains, illustrate this phenomenon. The future of education may need reevaluation as reliance on AI grows, emphasizing the need to understand human educability and prepare for new skills that could emerge in this changing landscape.
We lose abilities whenever we farm out tasks to other people or machines. Our brains have limited real estate, actively losing facts and skills we no longer use to make room for new ones.
The question is: When AI frees up neurons currently busy at finding the right adjective or trope, what new skills will AI make possible? We can't predict that.
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