About an essay's claim that AI already exceeds humans in most cognitive domains.
Has this happened?
Yes 33 (25%)Not sure 27 (20%)No 72 (55%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About an essay's claim that AI already exceeds humans in most cognitive domains.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
We are past the point where the question is whether artificial intelligence will exceed human capability across most cognitive domains. It already has.
To be convincing, as a top-of-your-class Stanford alumn, you only need to bullshit people. In the real world, you should come with definitions and measures of cognitive capability and domains. AI can't even drive a car safely outside of very limited scopes, and can't do it as adaptably as a human within those scopes.