Is AI Quietly Rewiring How You Think?
There’s a quiet unease that comes with using AI these days. Not the fear that it will take your job or go rogue — something subtler. It’s the sense that after spending hours with these systems, you start to think a little differently. Your questions become more like prompts. Your internal monologue sounds more like a chatbot. You catch yourself writing in bullet points.
A new paper from researchers across Union College, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, and Lenovo asks whether this feeling is more than just a feeling. They call it cognitive colonization.