As AI does more of the thinking, wanting to think becomes the rare skill
Reading for pleasure was fading long before AI could read and summarize for you. A study in the journal iScience found the share of Americans who read for fun on a given day fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023. Here is the turn: when a tool can think for everyone, the people who stand out are the ones who still choose to do the slow, hard mental work themselves, so deep reading and independent thought become a way to stand apart rather than a chore to hand off.
For youPick one thing this week you would normally ask an AI to summarize, read it in full yourself, and write three lines of your own view before you look at any AI take on it.
Source: iScience (Cell Press) ↗