It may sound valid in theory, but reality hits different. I believe AI does not drain the "cognitive commons", but widens the highway on who can participate, while also speeding up human judgement. Five points: 1) There are two kinds of mastery. Hard problems create a kind of internalized mastery, while distributed mastery comes from the craft of handling AI tools. The danger is being AI-centric on the surface without the internalized mastery. This is fixable by right recruiting. 2) Staying…