Digitally Curious

S8E2 - When AI does the thinking, how do young people learn to be critical thinkers? The urgent warning for those under 25.

May 3, 2026·51 min
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What happens to a generation growing up with AI always on hand to do the thinking for them? That question sits at the heart of this episode, and few people are better placed to answer it than Tim Cook, an elementary school teacher in Amman, Jordan, who has spent over a decade in international classrooms across five countries. Tim writes the Algorithmic Mind column for Psychology Today, and his research on cognitive offloading and child development has been making waves well beyond the ed...

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