Why Outsourcing Your Thinking Impacts Your Understanding

Why Outsourcing Your Thinking Impacts Your Understanding

You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding.

Andrej Karpathy shared this thought at AI Ascent 2026, and it struck a chord.

Today, it's never been easier to outsource cognitive tasks. We use AI to research, summarise, and draft. It drives incredible productivity. But can we achieve …

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