Outsourcing thinking to AI is a red line we shouldn’t cross


To the editor: For me, writing as a consulting group psychologist was a studying expertise. Engaged on 4 books, quite a few e book chapters, journal articles and scores of convention papers was my studying pathway to creating insights — insights from which my shoppers gained worth. (“AI-assisted writing is near changing into as customary as spell test. Right here’s the catch,” Opinion, June 20)

Outsourcing this worthwhile thought course of to synthetic intelligence is a purple line that we as considering people mustn’t cross. And but, apparently we’re. Why? Due to expediency: College students save time, researchers take shortcuts and firms scale back payroll.

As a advisor, I strongly suggested firms to not outsource aggressive benefit. What’s humanity’s aggressive benefit? Considering, evaluation and perception. Once we lose these qualities, we lose that which is most treasured to be human.

Merrill Anderson, Laguna Seaside

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To the editor: What has guided me as a author is to contemplate written phrases as a type of considering or a holding of the mirror as much as my very own ideas. Writing is certainly a mirrored image of our ideas, serving to us to raised perceive points and issues below our consideration.

ChatGPT is a ghost within the mirror. The haunting horror of this new expertise is that we might turn into additional remoted from ourselves and others, unable to genuinely know and articulate our ideas, emotions and issues — changing into additional estranged from ourselves and others.

Ben Miles, Huntington Seaside