Carlo Iacono no doubt observed the same charade I did over the last few weeks following the release of that MIT paper attributing cognitive decline to the use of AI. "The pattern is so predictable it borders on parody. A technical paper emerges from some prestigious institution. Its title, invariably crafted for maximum impact, promises to reveal what we always suspected: that artificial intelligence is either a fraud, a danger, or both. Within hours, the usual suspects emerge from their digital lairs, brandishing the abstract like a trophy." Iacono is angry, as he should be. "The real cognitive debt is not accruing to those who use AI tools. It is owed by those who have outsourced their thinking to the comfortable certainties of technological pessimism. They perform intelligence while demonstrating its absence, critique reasoning while failing to reason, and demand rigor while practicing its opposite."
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