Azeem Azhar：我不希望你的大脑退化
🧠 I do not want your brains to rot - by Azeem Azhar
Exponential View 作者 Azeem Azhar 在给团队的邮件中表达了对使用 AI 影响思考能力的担忧，并区分了“认知卸载”与“认知投降”：前者是有策略的委托，后者是对推理本身不加批判的放弃。他引用一篇未经同行评审的论文指出，人类认知实践在 AI 之前就已下滑，先进 AI 正促使人们把越来越简单的任务也委托出去，从而削弱维持认知能力的行为。
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136 15 13 Share I’ve been getting increasingly concerned about the impact on our thinking as we use more and more AI. I sent this email to the team this week, and I’d like to share it and my full thinking.
There is a deliberate oxymoron, of course, in using an AI-generated visual summary of an academic paper to make the point, but there is more behind that.
As I wrote back in March:
Cognitive offloading is a strategic delegation that costs nothing. Cognitive surrender is something different; an uncritical abdication of reasoning itself. And there is something about AI, about its allure and potency, that could make surrender far more widespread.
The AI models have got ever better, and we’re using them for more and more. We may be more productive, but might we be becoming less ourselves?
This paper , which has not been peer-reviewed, argues that we’re experiencing a cognitive divergence . Our cognitive practices, measured by how long we pay attention to tasks and how much we read, have already been declining before AI. Now advanced AI encourages us to delegate more and more, simpler and simpler tasks, weakening the practices that maintain our cognitive capacities.