Matt Wolfe examines whether AI makes people dumber. An MIT study found that people who relied only on AI struggled without it, but those with existing skills used AI to produce better work. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went partly to DeepMind's AlphaFold, showing AI amplifies expert thinking rather than replacing it.
AI is making us stupider. It is making computers slower. So why are we still using this? There was no real benefit to using AI.
So the study that they're pulling from in this clip is actually real. MIT split people into 3 groups. One wrote essays with AI, one used Google, and one just used their brain. Then they switched. And yeah, the group that had been leaning on AI struggled more when they had to write without it. That part is true, but that's not the whole story. The group that wrote from scratch first and then got access to AI actually did significantly better. Their writing improved. So when you start with naturally learned human skill and supplement that with AI, it actually makes you more capable, not less. And honestly, I think the Nobel Prize kind of proves that on the biggest possible scale. In 2024, half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to two researchers at Google DeepMind for an AI model called AlphaFold. It cracked protein structure prediction, a problem that scientists had been working on for 50 years. AI helped solve it, and the people who solved it were not replaced by the AI. They used it to think further than they ever could they could have on their own. That's kind of the whole thing. AI is an amplifier. If you already have strong thinking going in, it makes that thinking stronger. If you use it to skip the thinking part entirely, then yeah, you're probably going to feel that over time. But that kind of feels like a you problem and not an AI problem. What's the most questionable AI claim you've heard lately? Drop it below and I'll try to debunk it next.
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