Overabundance of calories and fast food led to an obesity epidemic and now nearly half the youth at risk of type 2 diabetes.

However, it also led to the counter reaction of cross fit and extreme fitness by a small percentage.

The same will happen with AI. Most people will become smooth brains when they don’t have to exercise thought and a small fraction will use it to push the bounds of what humans are capable of.

Most people spreading the gospel of AI don't even seem to remember the kinds of feats that humans are capable of. They want to sell you back your own potential at a markup, so it's not good for them if you believe in your own potential and won't give it away

I can see this outcome, however... there's a lot more nuance to worry about here. The small percentage, even now, can still get good food. And even grow their own crop.

We're already losing physical books, and data online will slowly become more and more circumspect. That is, AI training on AI, with more and more nonsense blogs, will make simple accuracy of any data very rare.

A strong mind may have the capacity to not be taint by AI too much, but what if it cannot get anything non-AI tainted to feed it? What if there are no teachers of any caliber left, for they are all smooth-brains as you say?

What if society is run AI itself, and no one understands anything at all?

That incredible mind may make some progress, but will lack the solid foundation you and I have had.

Good luck holding together a society in which large swaths of the population find themselves useless and starving.