Thinking Will Become a Hobby, Just Like Hunting After Domestication
AI's superiority in performance, cost, and availability is making human cognitive work obsolete, argues Diomidis Spinellis. As AI models solve open math problems and human skills decline, he predicts resistance from knowledge workers and government regulation, but insists the revolution is unstoppable. Ultimately, thinking will become a leisure pursuit, and we must adapt to find purpose beyond work.
Thought will increasingly become a leisure pursuit, as hunting did following animal domestication, calligraphy after typography, woodworking after industrialisation, and horse riding after motorisation.