"Men have become the tools of their tools."
-Thoreau, 1854
"After just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it."
- research finding, 2026
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04721
Alfie Kohn
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2026-05-07 11:54:19 UTC
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