What AI Is Actually Doing to Your Critical Thinking

Here's a feeling that's probably familiar. You drop some documents into an AI tool, get a draft back, and then spend twenty minutes reading it to figure out if you agree with what you just "wrote." No critical thinking required. Just vibes and approval. Advait Sarkar calls this being "a professional validator of a robot's opinions." He's a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and I think it's the most accurate description of modern knowledge work I've heard. The Pattern Has...