Is AI going to take over the thinking department?

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How will AI impact our thinking?

Are we going to loose our ability to think?

Steve Jobs called computers the "bicycles for the mind". In this metaphor, moving from point A to B is thinking, this any method that enhances that experience, while keeping the person in control of where and when, is a making it possible to think more and better.

Are LLMs going to be the racing cars or even the rockets for the mind? Or are they going to be a bus, train, or even self driving car, where the whole process is directed and carried by someone else?

Or maybe like commercial planes, where pilot is only there to override the machine in the small chance that becomes necessary, but otherwise the machine does the whole thing. And even when the pilot is in control, the computer is still making a great deal of corrections.

Due to the different advancements in technology, specially in mass production, only a small fraction of the population does any type of manual or even physical labor.

Where's before the industrial revolution +90% of the population was involved in food production, today it's <5%

Is AI taking over the thinking an inevitable step on the direction the human race is going?

At some point in our history philosophers, thinkers, and theologians would exalt our higher qualities, that is our ability to reason, regardless if it is God given or consequence of evolution.

Dare to know! Have courage to use your own reason!—Immanuel Kant

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.—René Descartes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.—René Descartes

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.—John Locke

The greatest want of the world is the want of men—men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.—Ellen G. White

The development of all our powers is the first duty we owe to God and to our fellow-men. No one who is not growing daily in capability and usefulness is fulfilling the purpose of life.—Ellen G. White

Faith and reason are like two wings upon which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart the desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that by knowing and loving God, men and women can come to the fullness of the truth about themselves.—Pope John Paul II

Is the trend in outsourcing our thinking aimed to that away from us? Or is it just not informed on its potentials?

LLMs, and AI powered assistants in general, are just a tool. It is up to the individual to use them as an enabler or as replacer.

What about social pressures though? In a world were everybody is using AI to stay ahead, can we relay on our own capabilities and go at our own speed really or are we forced by our environment?

A good example of this is the craftsman that still does his art manually, and even profiting from that.

But on the other hand there's the myriad of individuals and small business, and sometimes even large corporations, not wanting to adopt automation in their business and going bankrupt because of that.

As the machines do the physical work for us we look for gyms and sports to stay in shape and healthy. Does that mean when AI does all the thinking for us we are going to have gyms for the mind? How would those look like?

According to eurostat (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20190328-1):

Are we going to see similar numbers when it comes to mental exercises / thinking ?

All of these questions are based on the premise that AI will outsource our thinking, specially critical thinking. But, given the amount of information that we are exposed today, isn't our critical thinking outsourced already to "the internet" (and to any other source of information propagators, ie. "legacy media")?