From: The Wall Street Journal
How I Realized AI Was Making Me Stupid—and What I Do Now
April 10, 2025
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“With creativity, if you don’t use it, it starts to go away,” Robert Sternberg, a Cornell University professor of psychology, told me. Sternberg, who studies human creativity and intelligence, argues that AI has already taken a toll on both.
Smartphones are already blamed for what some researchers call “digital dementia.” In study after study, scientists have shown that people who regularly rely on digital help for some tasks can lose capacity to do them alone.
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