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> Encourages cognitive offloading, leading to skill atrophy

Speculative, we don't have that evidence yet. The evidence we do have is in students who have not yet developed skills and maturity, and who also have a lot of other confounding factors in their development, eg. social media, phones, formative development years exposed to immediate pleasure-seeking feedback loops.

> Backward-looking nature cannot adapt to changing circumstances

As opposed to the nimble flexibility that established institutions are historically known for?

> Displaces knowledge transfer between humans

If people use LLMs, presumably it's because knowledge transfer is faster and more convenient that way than via direct interaction.

> Flattens institutional hierarchies needed for oversight

We have hierarchical institutions for oversight because flatter institutions don't scale (because humans don't scale). If AI can scale and can provide the same transparency, accountability and oversight, how is that not an improvement?

I could go on with the remaining points, but suffice it to say that there are a lot of faulty assertions behind the paper's arguments. It's also interesting that every chicken little saying that the sky is falling immediately reaches for the ban hammer instead of providing constructive criticism on how AI (or whatever innovation) can improve to mitigate these issues.