Unless we find a way to combat it, AI will make us all stupider. This is not being given the attention it should. As Silicon Valley trumpets an ever-accelerating rush into the arms of unconstrained AI, our region has the opportunity to assert itself as a voice for a simple truth: people matter. We add value. We don’t have to be stupid.
Not concerned about this? You should be. Ask the people who are researching the effect of widespread AI utilization on an organization. Professors in our region at Georgetown and Washington and Lee universities are leading in this effort. There is a growing body of published research stating plainly that generative AI is an organizational crutch or stifler of creativity. For example, a recently publicized paper by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon states that when humans work closely with AI in an organization humans have a “deterioration of cognitive faculties.”
The researchers from Georgetown and W&L go further than that. They have found that when…
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