Hassabis warns AI can dull critical thinking if used lazily

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at the India AI Impact Summit that AI is like the internet: it can sharpen or dull critical thinking depending on how people use it. "If you use it in a lazy way, it will make you worse at critical thinking," he said. The remarks add to a growing chorus of tech leaders cautioning about AI overreliance. Mark Cuban this week said there are two types of LLM users: "those that use it to learn everything, and those that use it so they don't have to learn anything."

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