Well, whether or not, I do not claim to be a scholarly thinker. Nor am I a user of AI Chatbots, yet. But it seems that scholarly publishers are beginning to worry about the trend among the general population to use such chatbox features as a matter of convenience for pursuing their own enquiries in preference to the sometimes, actually ‘usual’, arduous process of finding information for themselves. As for myself, my preference is, or at least has been so far, to do my own researching, and it has been a lifetime of slow but hard endeavour – beginning long before the days of home computing – when only hard-copy books, mostly in libraries, places of advanced learning or old bookshops, were the only source of ‘reliable’ information on matters not generally uppermost in public thought.
Things are very different now, and I believe I have taken full advantage of that in the last twenty-some years. In a way I quite pity modern searchers after knowledge. Even with those present advantages and the potential future which AI offers, there does not seem to be a great rush, or even much interest, for people to utilise current conditions for other than trivial purposes. These are the days where ‘anything goes and nothing really matters’ it seems.
I admit to having had one conversation with a chatbot – the Chinese ‘DeepSeek’ AI engine – a natural choice if, as readers of my blog would guess by now, I am anti-pro-western thought. And even the answers I got from it maintained a distinctly pro-western bias without offering any other alternative world-view. Although it did maintain a very polite dialog, even after I rebuked it for biased thought. Here is a review of DeepSeek (image ) by secondtalent.com
Anyway, I will stop my rambling because here I have an article which may be of interest and stir your own thoughts.
AI may bring a cognitive renaissance to human thinking – Climate Science.Press – Feb 27, 2026
If you are also concerned about where current trends will lead, here is the article linked in that piece to people within the scholarly publishing world, most at risk from those trends. Have you considered from where AI will continue to ‘learn’ about the world in future if the vast amount of scholarly literature currently available to it ceases to grow at some point due to lack of public interest? A question worth pondering?
Responding to the Threat of Zero-Click Search and AI Summaries: How Do We Tame The Crocodile? – The Scholarly Kitchen – Feb 4, 2026
The most important advice I can give at this point is Never Stop Learning.
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