Sam Altman’s underrated AI fear: that we stop thinking for ourselves
30-07-2026 15:07 via thenextweb.com

Sam Altman’s underrated AI fear: that we stop thinking for ourselves

The man whose company is trying to get the world to use AI for everything has named a risk he thinks almost no one is talking about: that people will let it do so much of their thinking that their own minds go slack. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, calls it “cognitive atrophy,” and puts […]
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