Tim Harford: how AI tempts the lazy mind (opens the source in a new tab)
- The real risk, he argues, is not that we trust AI completely, but that we stop caring enough to check its answers.
- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark misremembered CS Lewis on stage, and Google’s AI misattributed a Lewis quote too.
- Like the telephone, AI cuts both ways: it can spark deeper research or replace it.
- 100,000+
- phone lines cut, 1975 fire
- 2/3
- felt isolated or uneasy
Why it matters Having an answer isn’t the same as finding the truth.
Other side Shortcuts also free time for deeper thinking; the choice of how to use them is ours.