"They can write a beautiful menu that looks perfect on paper, but they don't know that you can't bake if the oven is broken. This captures what Apple researchers discovered by testing AI reasoning models on puzzles of increasing complexity. For simple puzzles, AI performed well. Medium complexity showed AI's step-by-step processing advantages. But high complexity produced a complete performance collapse, not a gradual decline."
"Two recent studies reveal why the cognitive processes that make philosophy students better thinkers represent exactly what we risk losing when students delegate their intellectual work to AI systems. Philosophy students spend years wrestling with questions that have no obvious solutions. The exact opposite of what AI excels at. But somehow, this apparently impractical activity produces measurably superior thinking abilities."
Philosophy majors outperform other majors on verbal and logical reasoning tests and cultivate curiosity and open-mindedness. Two studies link prolonged philosophical inquiry and wrestling with uncertainty to superior thinking abilities. Reliance on AI leads 68.9 percent of students to develop laziness and miss cognitive development gained from tackling hard problems. AI reasoning models perform well on simple and medium puzzles but collapse at high complexity, even when given explicit solutions. AI systems reduce thinking effort as problems get harder, whereas humans increase effort. Delegating intellectual work to AI risks eroding critical thinking skills.
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