Hmmm. Not sure where to take this in the spirit of genuine and curious dialogue. I probably need a bit more context about your own approach to using AI as well as some background on how you have formed your current understanding. Happy to extend the conversation and explore if you are interested. Always up for a sincere dialogue if on offer. That being said, my intellect (my ability to reason and arrive at an understanding logically and abstractly) has not changed, but the time to arrive at a solution, a clarification, an opposing argument, etc has been significantly reduced. AI has not added or taken away from me any specific cognitive skill. Rather, AI has crushed down a big part of the early enquiry cycle. I find that I arrive at a potential thesis to explore sooner than I did with a Google only approach.