Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce

2026-07-10 22:10 UTC

Another Atlantic article that appears to hit. The TLDR is if you seek higher cognition and use AI as a tool alongside that practice you’ll be fine. If you lean on AI to avoid cognition then you’ll backslide into the primordial goo as a person.

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@edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 22:37

I started backsliding into a primordial goo person almost 15 years ago tyvm

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@TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 2026-07-10 22:21

Tf does “seeking higher cognition” mean. If you use AI you are an idiot. Handing your thinking over to a corporation for profit is insane behaviour, even if it did something useful. Which it doesn’t.

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@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 00:00

I understand that this is anecdotal, but the schoolteachers I know all tell similar stories. Most kids can’t read up to their grade level and can’t focus for more than 60 seconds. They’re unable to tell you the answer to a question when it’s literally written on the board in front of them, and a common question they ask is: “If AI can do this for me, why do I have to learn it at all?” Which tells me that the AI age will produce lazy people who are unable to think for themselves or solve simple problems. Then again, maybe BCI’s will become common and they literally won’t have to actually think for themselves. It’s gonna be so great getting old with them running the world.

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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 07:13

I’ve got a coworker who still attends something one could call programming school. They use AI extensively. I am not sure if I could trust him to complete a project in a way that would leave it maintainable. Of that he could maintain it.

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