Dr. Dan McQuillan:

The ironic thing about the degradation of cognition is that it comes from one of the companies themselves. The primary piece of research was from a group of researchers that included Microsoft researchers. Microsoft is very involved because it is the partner of OpenAI, which is the company that produces ChatGPT. It did the initial research showing that how the overuse of these things in workplaces led to a reduction in people's capacity to think. We only have to ask anybody who works in a university or in a school right now about the kinds of effect that this is having. This is very much an after the horse has bolted situation. I am not a regulator or policymaker, but it is clear that, unfortunately under current conditions, society seems to have abandoned the idea that there should be a critical consideration of technologies before they are widely introduced. It is not too late in the sense that AI is not the end of it. As we all know, this thing is rapidly changing. A reconfiguration of the idea of regulation rather than trying to land it on everybody after it has already happened, and trying to get ahead of the game and say that technologies that influence society on a wide scale should be critically subject to social sanction and democratic critique before they are allowed to be released on society, would be a good start.