Artificial Intelligence: bots don't replace brains and are not an alternative to cognition. The risks of burnout

Some time ago, at dinner, we were discussing Artificial Intelligence with some friends when, suddenly, a high school teacher asked: “But are you for or against?”. The question was so unsettling that we answered with a few seconds of silence. That only one of us had managed to break, replying: “It's as if I were asking if we are in favor of using the piano because, otherwise, we could play the harpsichord.” Fulminant. Here: we should rethink what…