Can you still tell which text parts you have written versus which have been generated by a generative AI tool? The lines seem to be blurring, and the question is what this blurring does to the cognitive process of knowledge construction. Are we delegating and offloading our thinking? Are we boosting and amplifying our ideas? Or are we distributing cognition and finding new ways of expressing new ideas? We ponder these questions together with Aron Lindberg, who studies what humans and machines can build together that neither could build alone.

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