Superintelligent Warns AI Ghostwriting Erodes Whole-Brain Workout in 1 Opinion Essay
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Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 23
Superintelligent Warns AI Ghostwriting Erodes Whole-Brain Workout in 1 Opinion Essay
2 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Jun 23
Summary
A Superintelligent opinion essay argues that relying on AI to ghostwrite weakens the mental exercise of turning ideas into structured prose.
The piece says writing itself is the workout: people and cultures that stop wrestling thoughts onto the page may end up with fewer thoughts worth developing.
Published June 23, the newsletter frames the issue less as productivity and more as a cognitive cost of outsourcing composition to AI.