The risk isn’t so much losing the ability to think (I think that is exaggeration), but rather that interacting with it is changing how we think, or, indeed, what we think.
* but rather that interacting with it is changing how we think, or, indeed, what we think*
That's simply the world moving forward. You might assume that a house is a smoky place before folks invented the chimney. Horses were important before mechanical transportation got off the ground. Belief in humors has dwindled since germ theory proved to be successful. Reading and non-religious texts being easily available introduced ideas folks might not have had on their own. The camera caused folks to reconsider what art is and allowed for impressionism, abstract art, and more.
Tech and advancement changes the way we think and what we think, and it shouldn't be surprising.
This also plays out over time and assuming future LLMs will be trained ever more on the generative output of todays LLMs we could end up communicating using a Language itself that will become frozen in time as it cycles through the same feedback loop. As John Culkin said: “We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us.”
