Reading and writing and thinking hard are like going to the gym for your brain. Of course if we offload this work to GenAI we will lose cognitive skills in the same way it hurts me to run or lift weights without training
Cian O'Donnell
One of my major worries about what we are doing to our collective brains and the brains of young people in particular
Heather B
Reading only 20 pages of text is too hard now? #education
"Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not ‘free students up for higher-order work.’ It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.”"
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Plunging assessment scores show reading skills are vanishing, with an instructor complaining his pupils can't understand basic assignments.
