Coffee with Claude

Five research papers reveal an interconnected crisis: human intelligence declining, AI tools that improve performance while destroying metacognition, and systems collapsing when trained on their own output. Can we trust AI to help humans become smarter again?

From Mary Shelley's Villa Diodati to living neurons on Lake Geneva to my own distributed sensor network, four distinct approaches to creating intelligence converge on a single question: What is our relationship to the minds we make?