
The AI Reset
Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text and people reacted like someone had announced the end of AI. I think they are asking the wrong question. The better one is what we became while AI was becoming normal.

Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text and people reacted like someone had announced the end of AI. I think they are asking the wrong question. The better one is what we became while AI was becoming normal.

People who think first and use AI to accelerate gain leverage. People who let AI think for them accumulate cognitive debt. Research from MIT and enterprise studies shows the divide is already forming.

AI is not uniformly enhancing or degrading human intelligence. It is redistributing it. As tools absorb certain forms of reasoning, humans reallocate effort toward higher-level synthesis, judgment, and coordination. This shift creates a bifurcation in cognition itself: some skills atrophy while others accelerate. Understanding this split is essential to designing systems that augment rather than erode human capability.