Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-06-30 · 108 min · 21,656 words

Ep. 359: Should We Fear Cognitive Debt?

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I'm Kyle Newport and this is Deep Questions, the show about cultivating a deep life in a distracted world. So I'm here in my Deep Work HQ, joined as always by my producer Jesse. Jesse, I have a question for you. Have you at any point ever used AI to help you while you were writing something? No.

A lot of people have been asking you this though. Have been asking me or been asking you? You. Yeah. Like through email.

This, I think, is the point. Most people right now know about tools like Chat GPT, but are not actively using them for things like to help their writing. But more and more people are. It's this sort of growing movement. This is what we're going to get into into our deep dive today.

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