How can AI absolve us of the need to think and at the same time require special skills to use AI? This seems contradictory.
However AI is similar to cars in this regard. We used to walk, ride a horse or a bicycle to get somewhere. These means of locomotion weren't very fast, but they could take us just about anywhere and they made us very connected to nature. Cars removed all that and forced us to remake our society around cars. We wouldn't be able to ride a horse today even if we wanted to. The only means of transportation is a car on an asphalt road. And yes, riding a car is a separate skill that has nothing in common with walking or riding a bicycle.
I suspect AI will similarly turn our society upside down, so that using your own mind to think won't be possible, just like riding a horse isn't possible today. It's hard to say exactly how this will be achieved, but some tendencies can be seen already: AI produces mountains of slop, making it impossible to read thru by yourself. It's a DDoS on human culture, in essense. If everyone everywhere uses AI to communicate like that, you'll be facing a hard choice: give up your agency, just like everyone else, and use AI to read emails or retreat into the mountains away from this madness.
However AI is similar to cars in this regard. We used to walk, ride a horse or a bicycle to get somewhere. These means of locomotion weren't very fast, but they could take us just about anywhere and they made us very connected to nature. Cars removed all that and forced us to remake our society around cars. We wouldn't be able to ride a horse today even if we wanted to. The only means of transportation is a car on an asphalt road. And yes, riding a car is a separate skill that has nothing in common with walking or riding a bicycle.
I suspect AI will similarly turn our society upside down, so that using your own mind to think won't be possible, just like riding a horse isn't possible today. It's hard to say exactly how this will be achieved, but some tendencies can be seen already: AI produces mountains of slop, making it impossible to read thru by yourself. It's a DDoS on human culture, in essense. If everyone everywhere uses AI to communicate like that, you'll be facing a hard choice: give up your agency, just like everyone else, and use AI to read emails or retreat into the mountains away from this madness.