AI and Critical Thinking: MIT Professor Eric So Warns Against Outsourcing Our Minds
AI can now write reports, solve problems and prepare professional work within seconds. But MIT Sloan professor Eric So warns that the convenience may have a hidden cost: people could gradually lose the thinking skills that make them valuable. His new book, The Collision: What AI Does to Us, explores why protecting independent judgement is becoming increasingly important.
AI Risks 2026: Why the Debate Has Moved Beyond Hallucinations
The AI safety debate has moved quickly from chatbots making factual mistakes to warnings about cyberattacks, autonomous agents and systems becoming difficult to control. A major MIT-linked study of 272 experts helps separate the risks we already understand from the catastrophic possibilities we are still struggling to measure.