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I don't know what your interpretation of 'expanding possibilities' is, but I suspect that those are shortcuts in some way too. If you only use AI to help you search the internet, you'll become less adept at searching yourself. If AI allows you to do something that you aren't able to do yourself, it is allowing you the shortcut to not have to learn that thing.

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AI is expanding my thinking possibilities.

Mastering a certain form of internet search does not mean you are learning, it means you are mastering, to some degree, a tool to search. Shortcuts are OK here, per me. Learning comes when you actually go beyond tool-use skills.

To be more explicit, the time learning a tool is not time used learning, it's time used preparing for learning. AI cuts that, if you want, and you get straight to actually learning something instead of tripping over tools and infrastructure, becoming too overloaded to be able to see the forest from the trees.

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