You Are Not So Smart
337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw
April 13, 202659 min · 9,700 words
Show notes
How is AI reshaping human reasoning? What is cognitive surrender, and how do we avoid its negative impact? What is system three thinking, and how can we get the most out of it? Artificial intelligence researchers Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw have some answers, some questions, and some suggestions. Previous Episodes Thinking: Fast, Slow, and Artificial Gideon Nave's Website Steven D. Shaw's Website How Minds Change David McRaney’s Twitter David McRaney's BlueSky YANSS Twitter YANSS Facebook Newsletter Patreon
Highlighted moments
One. Adoption of AI outputs without verification. And two. Treating AI's outputs as one's own.
“I always tell my students that we're kind of humbled by AI now, but the brain does many things better than AI with far less energy and with far less training sample.”
“if we have a tool that is available to all of us, by definition, the use of this tool is making us less creative. We are becoming more generic.”
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