
Why Your Brain Needs to Go to the Gym in the Age of AI - DIETMARs OPINION
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Dietmar Fischer explores cognitive offloading, critical thinking, and why learning must remain mentally demanding when AI can provide instant answers. 🧠 What happens when AI solves every problem before you have had time to think? AI can make us faster and more productive. But if we use it to avoid every difficult mental task, we may also weaken the critical thinking, judgment, and problem-solving skills that make us valuable. Inspired by the question of whether the classroom should function more like a gym, Dietmar Fischer examines why our brains need resistance, repetition, and deliberate exercise. Just as muscles become weaker without use, our intellectual abilities can suffer when we…