Let's Not Lose What Makes Us Human

I don't reject AI. Rejecting technological advances while participating in society is useless. My Grandad rejected computers and that did not slow the progress of technology. I used AI to build this website and many other tools that amplify my skill set. But a force multiplier only works if there's force to multiply; anything times zero is still zero. The risk isn't only that AI makes us lazy and stupid. It's that it makes us dependent before we've noticed we've stopped understanding things.

If you can't evaluate the output, you shouldn't use the tool. If you don't understand enough about the world to recognize a lie or a miscalculation, you're not being assisted; you're being manipulated. Atrophied brains and frictionless entertainment are the ingredients for idiocracy. The only way to stay sharp is to keep learning things, keep thinking for yourself, and feed the flames of curiosity through iterations of intellectual exercise.