An unfiltered perspective on the shift in cognitive power.
Welcome back to Tech Trendsetters! Today's episode hits different because we're talking about something that affects every single one of us – including me.
Here's the thing: humanity is experiencing a new paradox – our tools are advancing rapidly, but instead of making us smarter, they're making us dumber (or should I say – intellectually passive). AI, particularly large reasoning models, is now outperforming humans in tasks that once defined intelligence – coding, reasoning, problem-solving, while people are losing cognitive effort and critical thinking skills.
Simply speaking, people don’t want to think anymore. The modern workforce blindly accepts AI-generated outputs without questioning them, and schools are adapting not by teaching better thinking skills, but by making AI tools a crutch. We are no longer the "thinking species" – we’re effectively outsourcing cognition (the most valuable skill we could ever have) to machines.
https://techtrendsetters.org/p/people-are-getting-dumber-and-ai
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