AI now helps people write wedding toasts, file tax returns — and even process the trauma of war.
While past tools let us externalize mental processes—notebooks for memory, calculators for computation, maps for navigation—AI widens the aperture. Now, summarizing and analyzing information, generating ideas, and making decisions can all be offloaded too. But what happens to our minds when we allow AI to do that? TIME reporter Tharin Pillay explores in the latest episode of AI, Explained by Humans. Read more here: time.com/article/2026/04/30/ai-thinking-co...