Will AI and technology improve our skills or downgrade them?
Today, I read a study showing that social media use is linked to weaker reading, vocabulary, and word-recognition skills in teens under 16.
Yesterday, I read an article saying that students who used AI showed up to 55% less brain activity and remembered less.
According to the news, if this is what technology was supposed to help us with and make our lives easier, then I don’t see the future very brightly.
On the contrary, I have to say that I use AI for education (e.g. for building, explaining things when I do not understand them). But 80% of people just take the information and do not bother to think about other things.
Yes, we can save a lot of time, and mental capacity/energy with "no memorising" – but do we really spend that saved time on something useful and meaningful?
How do you see the role of AI and technology affecting our effort, using free time and learning (brain activity)?
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That 55% drop in brain activity is a total gut punch it’s like our mental gears are getting rusty because we’ve hired an AI to do all the heavy lifting. While you’re using it as a gym partner to explain the "why," many are just using it as a "skip" button, which turns the brain from a muscle into a couch potato. The real tragedy is that we often trade that saved mental energy for mindless scrolling instead of anything meaningful. It feels like we have the most powerful tools in history, but we’re slowly forgetting how to keep our own "internal server" running.
We’ve got to stay in the driver’s seat, or we’re just passengers in a car we no longer know how to steer, right?