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Each year without proper AI instruction is another generation paying the price through diminished cognitive development.

But Educators face a challenge: how do you teach something you haven't been trained in yourself?

It will take decades to acquire data on the impact of GenAI on long-term cognition and dementia. But, let’s be honest, we know some of the consequences:

Reduced cognitive utilization → long-term cognitive decline → increased risk of dementia

All of this is compounded by the fact that AI-generated explanations are compelling by design. So compelling that people trust AI reasoning over their own—even when the AI is wrong and they are correct.

For professionals, using AI means shifting from being the creator to the reviewer. The problem is you still think you retain the ability to create.

For students it’s similar, but worse. They miss out on the opportunity to effectively judge the boundaries of their knowledge.

The evidence is already clear: AI affects learning, reasoning, critical thinking, creativity, and metacognition—our ability to regulate our own thought processes.

How we use this tool defines how it changes our cognition.

When you use GPS constantly, your spatial cognition weakens. When you rely on Google, you remember how to find info rather than the info itself. AI takes this adaptation to a new level because it changes how we think.

My query was about third party testing for protein powder, so also kind of confusing.

Article is here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Great analysis in some places, begging for editing in others.

But the quoted sentence feels like the sort of thing you just default to saying because it makes your life easier, even though it’s impossible for it to be universally valid.

I wrote about this tension—how metaphors have shaped our thinking and why it’s time to move beyond them.

biooptimist.substack.com/p/cells-are-...

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