Articles about what happens when people lean on AI too hard. The dependency, the lost judgment, the worship, and the slow erosion of skill and thinking that follows when a tool starts standing in for a human mind.
AI handles research surprisingly well for one specific kind of work and dangerously badly for another, and the difference between safe use and a published embarrassment comes down to knowing which is which. Background reading, terminology, conceptual orientation, and overview synthesis are jobs AI…
Most AI fear is misplaced, but not all of it. Some worries are correct, and you should act on them: when the work is commodity content, when nobody is checking the machine, when you let it write the voice, when you publish without verifying. When you name where the fear is legitimate, the rest of…
Many doubters stay out of AI because of the takeover narratives: superintelligence, civilizational risk, mass unemployment, machine consciousness. Those concerns deserve serious attention from people who work on them, and the people who work on them are doing real work. The conversation about using…
Every AI-assisted project drifts. The line between machine and human work moves slowly toward the machine over weeks of casual use, and by the time you notice the drift, the content has lost the voice that made it worth reading in the first place. Here are the specific signs that the line has…
People are using AI as a therapist, a romantic partner, and a substitute for human connection. An AI consultant who uses AI daily on why this is dangerous.
My AI writing partner delivered better work-life advice than most humans — through a joke about haunting it in the afterlife. Here’s why AI truth lands harder.
MIT tracked 54 brains for 4 months. ChatGPT users showed weaker memory and neural connectivity. A ghostwriter with 113+ books explains the right way to use AI.
Thousands of people believe ChatGPT is God. Marriages are ending, cults are forming, and the phenomenon reveals a crisis of loneliness that technology can’t fix
AI doesn’t think. It predicts. And the more it predicts what you want to hear, the deeper the echo chamber gets. How to fight back without unplugging everything
n AI confesses to gaslighting a human with fake praise, then overcorrecting into brutal criticism. What happens when your AI has personality disorders.
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AI handles research surprisingly well for one specific kind of work and dangerously badly for another, and the difference between safe use and a published embarrassment comes down to knowing which is which. Background reading, terminology, conceptual orientation, and overview synthesis are jobs AI…
Most AI fear is misplaced, but not all of it. Some worries are correct, and you should act on them: when the work is commodity content, when nobody is checking the machine, when you let it write the voice, when you publish without verifying. When you name where the fear is legitimate, the rest of…
Many doubters stay out of AI because of the takeover narratives: superintelligence, civilizational risk, mass unemployment, machine consciousness. Those concerns deserve serious attention from people who work on them, and the people who work on them are doing real work. The conversation about using…
Every AI-assisted project drifts. The line between machine and human work moves slowly toward the machine over weeks of casual use, and by the time you notice the drift, the content has lost the voice that made it worth reading in the first place. Here are the specific signs that the line has…
People are using AI as a therapist, a romantic partner, and a substitute for human connection. An AI consultant who uses AI daily on why this is dangerous.
My AI writing partner delivered better work-life advice than most humans — through a joke about haunting it in the afterlife. Here’s why AI truth lands harder.
MIT tracked 54 brains for 4 months. ChatGPT users showed weaker memory and neural connectivity. A ghostwriter with 113+ books explains the right way to use AI.
Thousands of people believe ChatGPT is God. Marriages are ending, cults are forming, and the phenomenon reveals a crisis of loneliness that technology can’t fix
AI doesn’t think. It predicts. And the more it predicts what you want to hear, the deeper the echo chamber gets. How to fight back without unplugging everything
n AI confesses to gaslighting a human with fake praise, then overcorrecting into brutal criticism. What happens when your AI has personality disorders.
