EDITORIAL Among the many ways AI is reshaping our lives, perhaps the most profound one concerns the way we think. Our brains now "benefit" from cognitive crutches transforming their very musculature. Yet, rather than speaking of an impending cognitive collapse, we’d better examine, in concrete terms, how three years of gradual integration of large language models (LLMs) have begun to change our individual minds, but also our collective cognitive architecture. The first and perhaps most striking observation is the dramatic expansion of everyone's capacity to write. If there was once a relatively small minority of people able to articulate complex ideas, writing has now become accessible to millions and is fundamentally altering the production and circulation of thoughts. Indeed, a huge number of people who had ideas but were unable to express them in the past, are gradually joining the rather elitist (so far) editorial mechanism. On the other hand, let’s admit that those thoughts that are being expressed are theoretical, even philosophical, lacking a factual grounding – a characteristic reinforced by the fact that

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