Simone Stolzoff

is more and more accurate.

The problem is when, like I was debating between these two jobs, we're looking for certainty where there is no certainty to be found.

One thing that I think these LLMs and these chatbots do is create the expectation that answers should be readily available, even for big questions in our lives that don't necessarily have definitive certain answers.

The second thing they do is they take away the need for us to wrestle with problems.

So there's this idea that I was coined initially by the writer Cal Newport, which I really like.

And it's about cognitive fitness.

And so similar to the metaphor you used earlier, in order to get stronger, we have to lift weights, we have to put our muscles under tension.

That's what allows us to get stronger.

Similarly, cognitively, with our thinking, we need time under tension in order to grow our brains, in order to learn, in order to think harder.

And I think one thing AI does is it allows us to circumvent some of that time under tension because we can just ask the chatbot for the answer.

And there's some really interesting studies from MIT recently, people who were given the opportunity to use AI to help assist them write papers.

And what they found is basically the papers were good.

But the writers of the paper did not retain any of the information or the points that they were making.

And so I think that's the real risk, where we outsource the hard thinking to AI in a way that detracts from our own ability to actually learn and to grow.

When it comes to predictions about AI, I think we have this natural tendency to either lionize or villainize the technology.

To say, okay, AI is going to automate all rote tasks and push us towards high-level work, and we're going to be in this utopia of UBI and being able to just focus on writing poetry.

Or the other side of the spectrum, which is,

You know, this class warfare is imminent and the robots are going to show up at our doors with pink slips and there's going to be this massive disruption that's going to lead to this very dark age.

And the truth is, you know, as seductive as both of these worldviews are,

No one really knows.