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5 Concerning Reasons Why AI Will Make People Stupid
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While everyone raves about AI, the machine is slowly putting its small byte-sized claws into our sentient brains, devastating our cognitive abilities.
Will AI massively improve productivity and human capabilities? Absolutely. Yet, the dark side of all of this is how technology has already made us weak and soft.
We’re lazier, unhealthier, and less happy, even while revolutionary innovations surround us.
With AI, it’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on it for as much as it’s capable of doing — just like any other technology. Michael Easter laid it out remarkably in his book, The Comfort Crisis:
“So it’s no wonder Steve Jobs famously wouldn’t let his children use the iPad. He’s not the only tech guru who questioned what he was pushing. A massive swell of Silicon Valley workers who develop mobile tech and apps don’t allow themselves or their kids to use the Valley’s products. One former Facebook exec told the New York Times that she is ‘convinced the devil lives in our phones.’ Another said that Silicon Valley tools are ‘ripping apart the…