We've always offloaded memory -- to books, to phone numbers in our pockets, to the calculator. But what happens when we start offloading not what we know, but the act of thinking itself?

Prof. Dr. Michael Gerlich has spent his career on that question. A sociologist and behavioral scientist, he heads the Center for Strategic Corporate Foresight and Sustainability at SBS Swiss Business School, has published nearly thirty papers in five years, and advised presidents and cabinets across Central Asia and the Caucasus. His new book, The Convenience Trap, was featured in Time.

In this episode, he draws the line most of the AI conversation skips: offloading data is old news, but generative AI offers to offload the whole thinking process; it does so by predicting what you want to hear, not by giving you the  ...