Could the genesis of artificial intelligence be the exodus of natural intelligence? Our current effort of engineering ever more capable artifacts mainly evokes concerns about the nature of artificial intelligence. But perhaps more pressing is what that reveals about the nature of our natural intelligence. We seem inclined and incentivized to utilize intelligent tools that solve our cognitive tasks for us. This is made possible by developing technologies that can receive parts of our cognitive skills which we would usually exert internally for those tasks. Such interaction strategies may profoundly decrease our own cognitive engagements and responsibilities, ultimately rendering us extracted cognizers. The hypothesis of extracted cognition states that we have a tendency to seek external artifacts that solve our cognitive tasks rather independent of us, namely by making or letting them capture, mimic, and eventually replace those cognitive skills we would otherwise employ and train internally. Three questions shall lead us to this idea: First, how do we make intelligent artifacts? Second, how do we use intelligent artifacts? Third, how do we thereby become extracted cognizers?