Are you becoming a middle manager for your own thoughts?
Using chatbots to accelerate productivity may come with a hidden cognitive price. This talk explores how outsourcing our reasoning to artificial intelligence risks eroding our ability to think for ourselves.
AI and design researcher Advait Sarkar examines the dangers of delegating our logic to machines. He warns that as we rely on these tools to complete tasks, we risk transitioning into mere supervisors of our own cognitive processes. The video explores the mental costs of this shift and presents a vision for a new category of technology: tools designed not just to automate work, but to prompt reflection, nudge critical thought, and actively enhance human intelligence.
Source: Advait Sarkar: How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking
