I was walking in the library, searching for the only book we have about cyberpsychology. And I did find it. However, I put it aside and decided to read it after I finished the book I'm currently reading. And then, a series of thoughts kept coming to my mind. And it ends up with this big question: What did we lose when we stopped reading books? Instead, we rely on summaries provided by the AI. And here I am, not speaking about degree students for whom the issue of reading is not even a question that anyone would bother asking( because no one reads). Instead, I am referring to post-graduate students. Who is supposed to get a master's degree and become an expert in their field? However, I realise that with myself and others, most of them do not read any books or even articles. More and more people (me included) rely on summaries provided by AI. Or, if they are diligent enough, they will only read the abstract of the article. I recall from my degree that I wrote multiple articles, and each might have had at least 20 articles cited without reading any of them fully. I just relied on the summaries provided by the AI. It is hard to imagine that my situation will be much different from that of other researchers in the field. Perhaps for the old and classic researcher who grew up with books, their ability to read a whole book or literature remains intact. However, in my case, and to a great extent, my generation of researchers does not commonly read a whole book. And the question that brings me back to my original question: What would the research community and science lose when a whole generation grows up in this way? And what might be the impact of such things on our future as a researcher? One of the clear impacts that comes to mind is reducing the number of knowledgeable people in society. I assume that we all love listening to these people who seem to know everything. When you ask them questions that are somehow related to their fields or even beyond them. They can always give you a perfect answer based on their deep and wide reading. These people can speak about different issues that are happening in our lives with certain levels of spontaneity. In other words, the real intellectuals. I believe after 5 to 10 years, when my current generation becomes the new leader, these types of people( who are already rare) will be about to become extinct. Instead, we will have more false intellectuals who may know about many topics but in TikTok Videos depth( like some lecturers that I know). And I do not see any real attempts to reverse such effects. In the last few months, I have heard about multiple webinars regarding how to use AI to write your articles faster and more efficiently. I have yet to see any webinar about the value of reading and knowledge regarding your field. Like recently, I started listening back to Egyptian influencers whom I admire and how much knowledge they have. And their ability to suggest books to read for every question people ask them. And I really kept thinking, How can I be like them? How can I reach and develop this reading ability that allows me to read this amount of books? However, it is something that concerns me and possibly another lecturer as well. But it is not something that I see anyone in the library or at my university address. And I believe, to some extent, it will be weird to ask people and expect them to read books. The other indirect influence might be the lack of comprehensive and multi-disciplinary understanding of any issue. Since I am using AI, I already know what are the articles and the theories that might be directly relevant. This also means that I will be less likely to come across other studies that can be relevant but in an indirect way and may help me have a newer approach to my research. When we are not reading any books related to our field, let alone another relevant field. It is hard to expect a psychology student who rarely reads any of his main textbooks to go to other textbooks in sociology. Which might result in having a narrow understanding or view of our research areas. Or even ignoring other issues that might be an interconnection of different fields. Another effect is based on a book that I read last year( the book called Shallow), which points out that reliance or fragmented sources of information might affect our ability to think deeply about the issues that we are facing. This problem I realised recently when I was trying to write the literature review. For me, I had already made the AI give me summaries of the main points for each article. But my ability to think and keep information was bad till the point that I had to ask The Ai also to arrange them into themes. And to make it even more shorter and simpler for me to report. While previously I would have done these things myself. It will not be perfect by any means, but I do not remember having this sense of incapacity. So, am I saying that we should not use AI summaries? I would be lying if I said so. However, the hard question is how to balance between developing your reading and deep focus skills while also using AI to get your work done. Let us be honest: it seems more attractive for me to spend the whole day on my laptop writing the thesis using AI summaries than spending 3 to 5 hours reading books. And then do the writing, but the question that started all these lines of thought in the first place: Which one would be more effective and efficient for our future as a researcher? And I really do not know.