“In the same way you might use Google Maps to get everywhere and not know how to get there otherwise, AI might cause people to stop learning things they would have otherwise had to learn. Ironically, though, Rosen thinks this could cause more stress as people are inundated with AI and constantly shifting gears and not seeing anything quite clearly.”

This is one of the most concerning aspects of AI IMO. Learning and thinking are some of the most fundamental aspects of being human. When you can outsource thinking to a machine, how is that going to affect your sense of self worth? How are we going to keep kids motivated to learn in school, when they know that they’ll never be able to learn things as well as AI can?

This article is making an alarmist case against AI by comparing it to technologies that also didn’t fundamentally change human life. “In the same way you might use Google Maps to get everywhere and not know how to get there otherwise…”, but GPS nav didn’t ruin our ability to drive. It just makes driving more convenient.

If anything, the presence of AI generated fakes will make face-to-face interactions more valuable. Our most trusted source of news will be the people we trust and interact with directly. That’s not a new and horrifying condition for humanity. It’s how we always live.

They don’t seem to be coping so well with a non-AI-saturated ‘post truth world’.

This has nothing at all to do with AI, we’re already living in a world filled with misinformation. AI doesn’t fundamentally change anything. The reality is that people come up with narratives they want to believe in, and then seek out information that fits in with those narratives.

We are living in a post truth world already, just check the news.