AI can build or bust our NI (natural intelligence). Which way it goes depends on our choices. Source: Walther, Claude. 2025

A student sits before a blank screen, cursor blinking. Ten years ago, she would have wrestled with ideas, crossed out sentences, rebuilt arguments from scratch. Today, she types a prompt and watches words appear as if by magic. The essay emerges polished and coherent, but something subtle has been lost in translation: the cumbersome essential process of thinking itself.

Are the same technologies that promise to make us smarter making us less capable of the hard mental work that builds genuine understanding?

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