Is AI Turning Our Brains to Mush?

“That’s a really thoughtful question,” ChatGPT mused in response to this question. “There’s some evidence on both sides.” This predictably insipid response from OpenAI’s chatbot is emblematic of the general smoothing-out effect that AI-powered tools inspire. As chatbots become more ubiquitous, the number of rough edges in life will slowly be smoothed out as we will all come to expect the effortless and the instantaneous.