Sam Altman says cognitive atrophy is one of the most overlooked risks of the AI era
Sam Altman said people should keep stretching their brains as AI takes on more complex work and personal tasks.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI could cause "cognitive atrophy" if people let it think for them.Altman said people must keep "stretching" their brains as AI takes on more tasks.
He also outlined a "pretty magical" future with personalized AI, but said human judgment will still matter.Sam Altman says one of AI's underappreciated risks is that people may let the technology do so much thinking for them that their own mental muscles begin to weaken."One that I don't think gets much attention is how are we going to avoid cognitive atrophy?"
the OpenAI CEO said on an episode of the "Invest Like the Best" podcast that aired on Tuesday, when asked about the most important unresolved questions facing AI."How are we going to use these tools and make sure that we are stretching our brains more and more and continuing to understand the stuff that really matters?" Altman said.
His comments come as a growing number of researchers have warned that while the technology could make workers faster, it could also weaken their underlying job and cognitive skills."There's never been a tool like this that has offered us the opportunity to let thinking be done for us," Nataliya Kosmyna, an MIT researcher whose preliminary study found that people using generative AI to write essays performed worse over time than participants using Google or no aid, told Business Insider earlier this month.Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neuroscientist and AI researcher, has described the risk of people abandoning cognitive work because AI can do it for them as "chronic substitution."
She told Business Insider last month that repeated substitution could weaken cognitive reserve, a key defense against dementia.Those concerns are especially pressing as AI tools move beyond answering questions and generating text to taking on increasingly complex work, including document review, research, analysis, customer support, and coding.Altman isn't the only tech leader to have
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