WSJ: Is AI Making Us Dumb? A June study from MIT Media Lab suggests that using ChatGPT to write essays results in “cognitive debt,” a fancy way to say that artificial intelligence makes you dumb.“Our society has become so smart we truly are stupid.” Ouch. But are we?

Dec 7, 2025 · 7:32 PM UTC

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Opinion | Is AI Making Us Dumb?

No. The moral panic over technology is an excuse for a failing educational system.

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Replying to @andykessler
Since AI got connected to the internet, all my searches are conducted either in gpt or grok, bye bye search engines, no more junk, only useful data.
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Replying to @andykessler
Thanks!! I have been saying this about changing education for past 4 years. As an adjunct, I have tweaked my own syllabus in that direction but I am not sure if career professors would change theirs because the current one has been in place for 33 years and works just fine😑
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