Will GenAI Lead to Cognitive Atrophy?

by Karim Keshavjee, MSc, MD, MBA

Will generative AI lead to cognitive atrophy — or can it actually accelerate human thinking? Karim Keshavjee, physician and health informatics professor at the University of Toronto, argues it can go either way. In this video he draws on three unlikely sources — Michel de Montaigne, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Alexander Pope — to show what AI can and cannot do, and what that means for anyone who thinks for a living.