The 18-Month Myth: Why AI Isn’t Destroying Critical Thinking, It’s Redefining It.

The conversation about artificial intelligence usually gravitates toward spectacular disasters. We worry about superintelligence seizing control or mass unemployment destabilizing society. Derek Thompson’s widely discussed essay, You Have 18 Months, introduced a quieter, more intimate anxiety. He focused not on the machines taking our jobs, but on the potential softening of the human mind. His [ ]