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Are You Letting AI Think for You?

"ChatGPT, write a response to this message." Quick, easy, done. And that's exactly how outsourcing the work quietly becomes outsourcing the thinking. There's a name for it, cognitive offloading, and the research is unsettling: the heaviest AI users score the lowest on critical thinking. But I don't think the fix is less AI. It's remembering that AI can generate, but a human should elevate.

Gen AI is a TI-30, and the Humanities are having their “slide rule moment.”

(I haven’t lost my mind. Allow me to explain.) Math and math-adjacent fields faced a crisis in the 1970s when digital calculators arrived in students’ hands. These were just basic versions, nothing close to scientific or graphing calculators (just go look up the TI-30!), but they were a quantum leap ahead of the slide rule …