AI can make you less capable of thinking

The problem is that a chatbot is designed precisely to reduce that discomfort. Ask it for an outline, and it gives you one. Ask it for examples, and it gives you those. Ask it for the entire essay, and it does that too. With a convincing tone, good structure, and sometimes perfectly disguised errors. That last point should make us pause before saying that AI is a calculator for words. A calculator, used properly, provides definite results. A language model produces plausible text; it does not guarantee truth. And that is where a paradox emerges. To use AI well, you need to know how to evaluate its responses. But if we use it to avoid learning, we will have less and less judgment with which to evaluate it. It is the vicious cycle of convenience. The less you understand the subject, the easier it is to accept a confident, well-written answer. And the more you accept it, the less you practice understanding the subject.

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