#cognitiveoffloading

AI will either destroy them completely - or help us rebuild and strengthen them Behind the...

Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text and people reacted like someone had announced the end of AI. I think they are asking the wrong question. The better one is what we became while AI was becoming normal.

A 30-month study of 26,811 Chinese secondary students found that after adopting generative AI, homework scores rose about 18% and homework time fell about 30%, while closed-book monthly exam scores fell about 20%, with losses concentrated among stude

The data on skills AI cannot replace misses kids entirely. Here

AI is not uniformly enhancing or degrading human intelligence. It is redistributing it. As tools absorb certain forms of reasoning, humans reallocate effort toward higher-level synthesis, judgment, and coordination. This shift creates a bifurcation in cognition itself: some skills atrophy while others accelerate. Understanding this split is essential to designing systems that augment rather than erode human capability.

People who think first and use AI to accelerate gain leverage. People who let AI think for them accumulate cognitive debt. Research from MIT and enterprise studies shows the divide is already forming.

Introduction: The AI Paradox in Coding Nick’s story is a cautionary tale of the AI...

The internet browser, that most mundane of digital tools, is having a moment. After years of relative...

Every morning, millions of us wake up and immediately reach for our phones. We ask our AI assistants...