The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?)

So there's a new paper making the rounds. It's called Large Language Models as a Cognitive Virus. It's it's written by a distinguished group of professors from all around the world. Now, the core argument in this paper is that LLMs as they spread are like a virus that is going to change collectively the way that cognition happens, and these changes could be very negative. Now, I'm going to be honest with you.

When I read this paper, it woke me up. Because here's what's been going on. The AI discourse in recent months has really been focused on existential questions. Questions like, are swarms of AI monsters going to kill us all? Or questions like, are we just one model update away from LLM-based tools but able to solve all of our problems and ushering in some sort of digital utopia?

Now these questions are are fun and exciting and frustrating. And I got involved in some of these debates because, you know, I I I didn't want people to be more anxious than they needed to be, and I thought there were some absurdities being floated around in here. But this paper reminded me that my main focus in my work is you. You being the individual. My main focus is helping individuals figure out

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