Whether AI hinders or promotes our capacity for learning may depend more on how we use it than whether we use it. In other words, it is not AI that is the problem, but our overreliance on it.

Van Belle, in Belgium, now uses large language models to write social media posts for his company because he doesn’t feel like that is where his skills are most refined and the process can be very time-consuming otherwise.

“I would like to think that I would be able to make a fairly decent LinkedIn post by myself, but it would take me an extra amount of time,” he said. “That is time that I don't want to waste on something I don't really care about.”

These days, he sees AI as a tool, which it can be — as long as we don't offload too much of our brain power on it.

“We’ve been on this steady march now for thousands of years and it feels like we are at the culmination of deciding what is left for us to know and for us to do,” Fisher said. “It raises real questions about how best to balance technology and get the most out of it without sacrificing these essentially human things.”

-Elizabeth Lavinka in Salon.com