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Current fears about AI causing harmful cognitive offloading are largely based on outdated impressions of early chatbots rather than today's AI tools.

Drawn from what Steven Johnson said

Subjectchat interfaces
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chat interfaces The text box as the way into a model: whether chat is the future of software or a terrible interface, and what replaces it.

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  1. Steven Johnson

    Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host

    To a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.

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    ↗Cognitive Uploadingadjacentpossible.substack.com

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