Is AI Making Us Lazy? (opens in new tab)

I predict it will be like the calculator: make some smarter and some dumber. There are people who use calculators as a tool to do the manual unintelligent work they already understand, so they can instead do more challenging math or other mentally challenging tasks that require math – and there are those who use a calculator so they do not need to understand basic arithmetic.

I said this a couple of times: the fastest way to make AI smarter than humans is to make humans dumber first.

What would make us regress in general intelligence is likely to be another, unsuspicious factor that double plays, intentionally or not, with the AI play.