I, Human
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/opinion/i-human.html
The writing teachers I know struggle to persuade their students not to use these tools. They are everywhere now, impossible to swat away. Who could blame a young writer for wondering how using these “assistants” is any different from using spell check or letting Siri supply the next word in a text? Besides, if they don’t use these tools, won’t they be falling behind the many students who do? It’s a fair point.
But letting a robot structure your argument, or flatten your style by removing the quirky elements, is dangerous. It’s a streamlined way to flatten the human mind, to homogenize human thought. We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world. The world which no one else sees in exactly that way.
Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/health/ai-therapists-chatbots.html
Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/opinion/i-human.html
The writing teachers I know struggle to persuade their students not to use these tools. They are everywhere now, impossible to swat away. Who could blame a young writer for wondering how using these “assistants” is any different from using spell check or letting Siri supply the next word in a text? Besides, if they don’t use these tools, won’t they be falling behind the many students who do? It’s a fair point.
But letting a robot structure your argument, or flatten your style by removing the quirky elements, is dangerous. It’s a streamlined way to flatten the human mind, to homogenize human thought. We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world. The world which no one else sees in exactly that way.
Human Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. Pretenders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/health/ai-therapists-chatbots.html
Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators.
Is AI making us less intelligent? By James Titcomb
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/20/is-artificial-intelligence-making-us-more-stupid/
Offloading our brains on to increasingly sophisticated tech risks damaging our ability to think critically.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/20/is-artificial-intelligence-making-us-more-stupid/
Offloading our brains on to increasingly sophisticated tech risks damaging our ability to think critically.