control group extinction

We Built AI Without a Control Group — And Now We Can Never Know What It Did to Us

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The largest cognitive experiment in human history was deployed globally without preserving our ability to measure its effects. Every study attempting to assess AI’s impact on human capability is now contaminated before it begins. I. The Standard We Violated Every meaningful scientific experiment requires a control group. Not for ethical decoration. For epistemological necessity. You We Built AI Without a Control Group — And Now We Can Never Know What It Did to Us

The Last Measurable Generation: Why Children Born Today Are Humanity’s Final Control Group

Child at crossroads between human baseline and AI-assisted future, illustrating the last measurable generation before control group extinction makes human capability unmeasurable

In ten years, we lose the ability to know what humans are capable of without AI. Not hypothetically. Structurally. Permanently. I. The Child Who Will Never Know A child is born today. By age three, conversational AI answers her questions. By five, AI tutors guide her learning. By seven, AI assists every homework assignment. By The Last Measurable Generation: Why Children Born Today Are Humanity’s Final Control Group