Our brains were not built for AI
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
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Neuroscientist Paul Cisek argues that the brain is not an information processor but a feedback-control system. A baseball outfielder catching a fly ball, for example, acts on the simple heuristic of 'keeping the ball in the same place in their field of vision' rather than calculating its trajectory. The article says AI is like 'cognitive junk food': immediately appealing but damaging to cognitive systems humans evolved over thousands of years.
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