Tyler Cowen

Economist Tyler Cowen argues in a new essay that people risk letting artificial intelligence erode their own thinking skills, urging readers to use AI as a tool rather than a substitute for judgment. His warning lands amid a broader debate about how heavy reliance on chatbots may affect learning, writing and critical reasoning.

Economist Tyler Cowen is soliciting questions from readers ahead of a planned interview with Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and co-author of the original SSL critique. On his blog Marginal Revolution, Cowen invites suggestions for what he should ask the cryptographer and open-source developer, continuing his well-known series of crowdsourced conversations with technologists.

Tyler Cowen has asked readers of Marginal Revolution to suggest questions for Tom Griffiths, the Princeton cognitive scientist known for work on human decision-making and co-author of 'Algorithms to Live By'. Readers are posting their questions in the comments ahead of an upcoming interview, in line with Cowen's usual practice of crowdsourcing prompts before conversations with prominent thinkers.

Economist Tyler Cowen has published a new piece on Marginal Revolution titled 'A Normal Debate?', filed under debate, culture and film. Beyond the headline and its category tags, no details of which debate is meant or what Cowen concludes are available in the snippet. Readers of the blog are circulating the link as part of ongoing discussion about cultural and political debate norms.

Marginal Revolution, the economics blog run by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, has published a piece warning readers not to let AI tools erode their thinking skills. The article, filed under AI, education and technology, argues that heavy reliance on artificial intelligence can dull reasoning if people outsource too much of their mental work to it. It lands amid a wider debate about AI's effect on learning and cognition.