AI isn't making us smarter — it's training us to think backward, an innovation theorist says

John Nosta, founder of NostaLab, said AI isn't thinking — it favors fluency over understanding.

He said AI flips human reasoning by giving polished answers before workers can think.

He warned that smooth AI outputs can weaken judgment when speed replaces thinking at work.

AI is often described as a thinking machine — a digital mind edging closer to human intelligence.

However, John Nosta, an innovation theorist and founder of NostaLab, an innovation and tech think tank, said that large language models don't think like humans at all.

In fact, he calls AI "anti-intelligence" because it operates in a way that runs counter to how humans reason, learn, and build understanding.

"My conclusion is that artificial intelligence is antithetical to human cognition," Nosta told Business Insider. "I even call it anti-intelligence."

AI doesn't understand the way humans do

At the heart of Nosta's argument is a simple but unsettling claim: AI doesn't understand anything in the human sense.

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