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AI & the End of Thinking? | Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution.
Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution. By Wolfgang Messner The Conversation Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain
A visitor at Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, in 2019 watches Orbit, a real-time reconstruction of time-lapse photographs taken on board the International Space Station by NASA’s Earth Science & Remote Sensing Unit, with a soundtrack by Seán Doran. However, further analysis revealed a critical trade-off: Reliance on AI systems for brainstorming significantly reduced the diversity of ideas produced, which is a crucial element for creative breakthroughs. What begins as a convenient shortcut risks becoming a self-reinforcing loop of diminishing originality — not because these tools produce objectively poor content, but because they quietly narrow the bandwidth of human creativity itself.
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