"In my early writing on artificial intelligence, beginning with my first " Cognitive Manifesto," I approached large language models with an almost jubilant optimism about their potential to lift human cognition. I tempered that view in my more recent piece, " Our New Cognitive Manifesto," where I began to look more closely at how daily life with these systems may be altering the nature of human thought."
"I believe that spending hour upon hour with AI may subtly yet tangibly alter the cadence of your inner voice. In fact, I've even called this the emergence of an " inner dialogue" where AI engages with our deepest thoughts to create a sort of "dress rehearsal" for life. Maybe this was the genesis of my concern. In this curious dialogue, sentences arrive with a theatrical articulation, and the small speed bumps of human contemplation begin to flatten."
Prolonged interaction with AI can subtly reshape the cadence of the inner voice by creating an inner dialogue that smooths cognitive friction and accelerates articulation. Sentences from AI often arrive with theatrical articulation, reducing the small speed bumps of human contemplation and encouraging users to reshape half-formed thoughts to align with machine suggestions. Imitation of human cognition limits potential and risks the ornithopter trap of copying rather than innovating. AI should instead leverage its distinct strengths: scale, reversibility, and hyperdimensionality. Cognitive depth emerges from the parallax between human and machine axes, enabling complementary thinking rather than mere replication.
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