MIT's Acemoglu warns accurate AI could collapse humanity's ability to generate new knowledge
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-25
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu, with Dingwen Kong and Asuman Ozdaglar at MIT, published "AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse," arguing that if AI becomes accurate enough it can collapse—not gradually degrade—human civilization's capacity to generate new knowledge.
The poster adds a practical observation: AI is dangerous precisely because it is good enough to discourage people from learning deeply, but not good enough to fully replace them—already visible in fields like CS and math, where students hesitate to learn deeply.
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