How Generative AI Could Change How We Think and What We Know

Generative AI like ChatGPT can summarize and present information back to us, changing how we think and what information is perpetuated.

Personalized AI tools like Meta's assistant can have conversations, generate images, and perform tasks tailored to individual users.

Access to unprecedented information through the internet hasn't necessarily made us wiser, due to things like the Google effect.

Generative AI takes this further by locating, evaluating, and synthesizing information for us, leaving us vulnerable to biases.

To avoid problems, we need AI literacy and tools that encourage human autonomy and critical thinking.