Generative Artificial Intelligence: Between Enhancement and Cognitive Offloading
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The history of technology can be understood largely as the history of externalizing human capacities. In this sense, the emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) marks an inflection point by delegating, for the first time, executive and reasoning functions. A fundamental dilemma thus arises: is GenAI an amplifier that democratizes performance or a mechanism of dependence that leads to cognitive offloading? Drawing on recent literature, this article examines its educational, cultural, and social implications, highlighting the need to understand it both as a technical tool and as a phenomenon that transforms the relationship between mind and knowledge. In a future where humans and artificial intelligence become intertwined, the ultimate question is whether this symbiosis will open a new chapter in intellectual evolution or, instead, trigger an involution that undermines the mind’s sovereignty over its own processes.
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