--- title: AI may be making us think and write more alike | daily.dev description: A USC Dornsife opinion paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that AI chatbots are homogenizing human language, reasoning, and thought. As... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-may-be-making-us-think-and-write-more-alike-u10sklhub twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI may be making us think and write more alike | daily.dev og:description: A USC Dornsife opinion paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that AI chatbots are homogenizing human language, reasoning, and thought. As... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-may-be-making-us-think-and-write-more-alike-u10sklhub og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/u10SklhUB.png og:image:alt: AI may be making us think and write more alike og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI may be making us think and write more alike **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A USC Dornsife opinion paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that AI chatbots are homogenizing human language, reasoning, and thought. As billions of people rely on the same LLMs, individual writing styles lose distinctiveness, group creativity declines, and reasoning becomes biased toward linear, Western-centric patterns. The researchers call on AI developers to intentionally incorporate global cognitive and linguistic diversity into LLM training data to preserve humanity's collective intelligence and problem-solving capacity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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