Thursday, May 14, 2026

The memory paradox: why our brains need knowledge in the age of AI

I have this aching feeling - which might sound familiar -  but I never saw any academic research on this: offloading too much thinking to AI and digital tools is weakening our cognitive abilities (in plain words - AI makes us dumber ...) . 

In the white paper "The memory paradox: why our brains need knowledge in the age of AI" - the lead author - Barbara Oakley points to changes in education and the rise of cognitive offloading to why IQ scores are declining in developed countries. 

If she is right, the outlook for companies in the near future does not look good ...



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