# The End of Thinking  ## Metadata - Author: [[Derek Thompson]] - Full Title: The End of Thinking - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Young people are losing thinking skills by outsourcing reading and writing to AI. Reading and writing train deep thought, but both are falling fast. The bigger danger is human de-skilling, not machines taking our jobs. - URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-end-of-thinking?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2880588&post_id=174284835&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=62t39&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > “College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point,” one student said. “Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” a professor echoed. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6ht0wh9wvd7rg9b874ja9c1)) > The demise of writing matters, because writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing *is* an act of thinking. This is as true for professionals as it is for students. In “Writing Is Thinking,” an editorial in *Nature*, the authors [argued](https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00323-4) that “outsourcing the entire writing process to [large language models]” deprives scientists of the important work of understanding what they’ve discovered and why it matters. Students, scientists, and anyone else who lets AI do the writing for them will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k6ht1e1e218dxx04azh3exhv))