This may be the most important problem of our lifetime.
You Can Increase Your Intelligence: 5 Ways to Maximize Your Cognitive Potential
Opinion | Can You Get Smarter? (Published 2015)
There is much that you can do to keep cognitively sharp.
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent | New Scientist
The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett
How we rank the world's most pressing problems (and why)
We started with global health, then pandemics. Now we focus on AI risk. How our views changed and what problems we'd recommend you work on today.
The Attention Economy and the Collapse of Cognitive Autonomy
Check out the first in a series on social media from Denny Center Student Fellow Rai Hasen Masoud (F'27) to learn more about the attention economy and it's impacts on our democracy.
Problems of Proliferation — LessWrong
Scientific progress and its perils. TLDR: The vulnerable world hypothesis is likely correct. Once enormous amounts of cognitive labor start getting a…
Less is more, more or less
In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.
The Use of Knowledge in (AGI) Society
How to build to break the intelligence curse
What Makes Us Smart?
Human creativity does not solely rely on our individual cognitive abilities, but instead emerges from the recombination of ideas, practices, and approaches that result from social interactions and id...
Are We Betting on the Wrong Kind of Intelligence?
AI optimizes for the world as it was. Rewilding could be what prepares us for the world as it is.
Without a theory of intelligence
The history of science — and of progress — is a series of benefits that are direct results of new tools.
Thinking Fast, Slow, Artificially: AI and Your Brain
AI can boost your decisions — or quietly undermine them. Wharton researchers introduce a new theory of cognition that every leader needs to understand.
AI overuse could spark "brain fry," new research finds
The mental strain associated with AI carries "significant costs," researchers find.
The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
