Glossary
CompensAItion
Deliberately keeping valued thinking abilities in practice while benefiting from AI assistance.
In the book
Ask what you want to remain able to do, then find useful occasions to exercise it. You might delegate formatting while examining an argument yourself, or use AI feedback after making your own attempt.
The name Martin uses for this approach in AI for Smart Humans.
Introduced in chapter 18, “CompensAItion: What We Keep in Practice”.
Martin answers
Related terms
- Cognitive atrophy: Weakening of mental abilities through insufficient use or practice.
- Cognitive offloading: Moving part of a mental task onto an external aid, such as a notebook, calculator or AI assistant.