The Collision: What AI Does to Us

MIT Sloan professor Eric So argues in his new book that AI is reshaping human cognition—memory, judgment, learning, attention, and tolerance for difficulty—and that surrendering thinking to it often looks like productivity, a tendency he calls "AI gravity." He offers guidelines for employees, managers, executives, and educators to preserve judgment and "signature thinking skills," warning that outsourcing thinking causes cognitive atrophy and that cutting junior hiring to save costs destroys the pipeline for future senior talent. So opposes banning AI in schools, urging instead that it be used to amplify people's own ideas rather than replace their thinking.