Psychology Today | 27.05.2026 00:52
A while ago I wrote about what I called the velocity of thought. And now, I want to push on this idea a bit more, particularly in the context of AI's role in thinking—with us and for us. We've spent decades building machines that moved information faster, but large language models seemed to be doing something different. They appeared to influence the "movement of ideas" themselves rather than simply accelerating the transmission. Questions produced new questions, unexpected concepts connected, and thinking felt active in ways I had not experienced.
