{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Generations","title":"Two Plus Two is Sometimes Purple: We Take on AI","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2699,"description":"Peter and Aubrey land on opposite sides of the AI divide: Aubrey has stopped using large language models almost entirely and sees them flattening critical thinking, while Peter uses them daily for drudgery and automation but refuses to let them near anything creative. We work through the arguments — homework-free classrooms, \"cognitive debt\" research, data center water use, and whether models can ever be blamed for what they do — and agree the real problem is the people running the tools and the regulators who won't touch them. Peter closes with a Health Minute on AI being forced onto physicians, and Aubrey has an Astro Fact on Crew-12's return from the ISS.\nShow Notes\nGenerational split: Aubrey now avoids LLMs altogether, while Peter runs several AI automations every day and considers them force multipliers.\nAubrey's high school math-teacher friend no longer assigns homework — her students' entire grade is tests, which Aubrey found shocking.\nMIT Media Lab's \"Your Brain on ChatGPT\" found essay writers using an LLM showed weaker brain connectivity and \"cognitive debt\" afterward.\nDoshi & Hauser found generative AI raises individual creativity but narrows the diversity of ideas across a group — the effect hits hardest when you outsource brainstorming.\nMicrosoft and Carnegie Mellon found knowledge workers who lean on AI for problem-solving tend to stop scrutinizing its output.\nPeter's argument: we're speedrunning the rollout — the Model T barely changed in 20 years, while AI has compressed decades of change into a couple.\nPeter's fix for schools is a flipped classroom: read and study at home with the AI's help, then do the problems in class where the teacher can see who's stuck.\nPeter's personal line: no AI for anything creative — he stopped brainstorming with it entirely and uses Grammarly for grammar only.\nAutomation he does use: a dashboard that routes tagged Drafts notes into his Imperfect Practice ideas inbox three times a day via an MCP server.\nHe also had...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fY2KwwwQLffNbRBMXpqVwuEgdwUGJAS7XvG8Vw5c2Sk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wOTc4/ZTM0MTY0MWQ0ODk4/OWI2OWU4YzhkYTdl/YWJiOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}