I think ai is a great learning tool personally. I don’t think it stops critical thinking, i believe it enhances it. It knows so much stuff so it’s like a search engine of knowledge.

The problem i was eluding to was the fact that ais are almost too good at certain things to the point you don’t really have to think about how to do something. You depend on some machine to do it for you.

We depend on machines all the time: like to do mathematical calculations (calculators, computers). we don’t do it on paper anymore. It’s slow, tedious, and error prone. if the tool is good enough and accurate most of the time, people will just use it instead of doing the more difficult thing.

I think whats happening is we’re offloading neural cycles to machines to give us more time to do things we want to do, the same way we offloaded physical work to machines in the industrial age (tractors, etc)