# Extending Minds with Generative AI **Opening (not a real abstract):** As human-AI collaborations become the norm, we should remind ourselves that it is our basic nature to build hybrid thinking systems – ones that fluidly incorporate non-biological resources. Recognizing this invites us to change the way we think about both the threats and promises of the coming age. Sometimes, it seems like the world is full of techno-gloom. There is a fear that new technologies are making us stupid. GPS apps are shrinking our hippocampus (or in other ways eroding our unaided navigational abilities); easy online search is making us think we know (unaided) more than we do; multitasking with streaming media is driving down our native attention span and (possibly) affecting grey matter density in anterior cingulate cortex - see refs. 1–4 and for a balanced review5. Similar fears surround new forms of generative AI (such as **Authors:** [[Clark 2025]]