TICS paper warns chatbots may erode human cognitive diversity
MacrinePhD · x · 2026-07-25
A new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that as AI chatbots standardize how billions write and reason, they may erode humanity’s collective problem-solving and ideation diversity.
The authors warn that repeated exposure to similar LLM outputs could narrow cognitive variety over time, and call for AI systems trained on real-world global diversity instead of a narrow slice of online text.
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