the risk of cognitive surrender

An article in the New York Times tells of a study at MIT that described the effects of artificial intelligence as leading to "cognitive surrender" as students look for the easy way out. 

Whenever faced with difficult challenges, students are turning to AI to solve them rather than working out solutions in the own minds and hands. One outcome of this is related to memory as the solutions derived from using AI are not retained. Craftsmen, on the other hand, retain a catalog of hypothetical solutions in their own minds derived from their own experiences.

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I had a conversation yesterday with an editor from Woodcraft Magazine about the need for woodworking in schools, for all students. A link to the resultant article will be shared later.

The use of the hands is our best tool for building the intellect, for it requires us to be present and engaged.

So we do things in schools that advance the student's minds or we choose to do otherwise. While some educators are choosing to think that artificial intelligence is merely the wave of the future and that students must be trained in its use,

I suggest the future is in our own minds and hands. A distinctly different story.

The photograph is of a piece from my video, Rustic Furniture Basics, a "stump table" now in the collection the Historic Arkansas Museum.