Tyler Cowen

Economist Tyler Cowen argues in a new essay that people risk letting artificial intelligence erode their own thinking skills, urging readers to use AI as a tool rather than a substitute for judgment. His warning lands amid a broader debate about how heavy reliance on chatbots may affect learning, writing and critical reasoning.

Marginal Revolution, the economics blog run by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, has published a piece warning readers not to let AI tools erode their thinking skills. The article, filed under AI, education and technology, argues that heavy reliance on artificial intelligence can dull reasoning if people outsource too much of their mental work to it. It lands amid a wider debate about AI's effect on learning and cognition.