We've had search and wikipedia for decades. Access to knowledge did not in fact obsolete the need to learn said knowledge in order to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. We don't acquire knowledge for the purpose of parroting it back on demand.
LLM might be used to find relevant information quicker, but they won't think for you, so people with LLMs won't suddenly have better critical thinking skills. They'll just make the same poor decisions faster.
Which is what happened with the Internet. We thought access to knowledge was going to enlighten all the dummies. It didn't, because no matter how much knowledge you present to a person, they have to also be willing to learn it, _think_ about it and apply it. That's the hard part.
LLM might be used to find relevant information quicker, but they won't think for you, so people with LLMs won't suddenly have better critical thinking skills. They'll just make the same poor decisions faster.
Which is what happened with the Internet. We thought access to knowledge was going to enlighten all the dummies. It didn't, because no matter how much knowledge you present to a person, they have to also be willing to learn it, _think_ about it and apply it. That's the hard part.