Are We Outsourcing Our Thinking to AI?
yenniejun111 · hn · 2026-07-14
The article discusses an increasingly realistic issue: whether we are outsourcing too much of our thinking process to AI.
It doesn't focus on a specific product, but rather on how this habit might alter human judgment, learning, and memory, and how humans can preserve their own cognitive abilities now that AI has become the default assistive tool.
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