Nature audio long read: the science of staying sharp in the age of AI
_akpiper · x · 2026-10-20
Nature publishes an audio long read, "How to stay smart in the age of AI — the science of critical thinking," by Helen Pearson and Benjamin Thompson. It addresses growing worries that the LLM revolution could blunt reasoning skills, and distills what education and cognition specialists have learned about staying cognitively sharp when AI can do the thinking for you.
Related pieces include "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they're not good" and a comment urging universities to resist outsourcing teaching to AI.
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