Social Edge Paradox

If AI capability depends on the social complexity of human language production—and if AI deployment systematically reduces that complexity through cognitive offloading, homogenization of creative output, and the elimination of interaction-dense work—then the technology is gradually undermining the conditions for its own advancement. Its successes, rather than failures, create a spiral: a slow attenuation of the very substrate it feeds on, spelling doom.

COGNITIVE OVERLOADING, OVERCONFIDENCE, UNDEREXPLORATION & FRONTIER AI REGRESSION

Bright Simons in The Social Edge of Intelligence via Kottke.org.