AI Is Junk Food for the Human Mind

Writer Benjamin Riley argues that AI companies misunderstand human cognition by treating the brain as a biological computer, a view traced to Alan Turing and echoed by figures like Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk. Drawing on neuroscientist Paul Cisek's work, Riley contends that brains are better understood as feedback-control systems, not information processors. Rather than passively receiving input and computing output, humans actively adjust their environment in response to stimuli. This distinction matters because AI products built on the computational model may undermine cognitive systems humans have developed over millennia.