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Are You Getting Dumber?

>“When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding us or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.”

What an excellent quote to describe this problem. We have it with many technologies, tools that have made work easier and left us lazy in the eyes of our parents and grandparents. AI is on another level, it's something that presented itself during a moment of great fragility for all of humanity and that has been taking the place of people's Ego, almost like a small surgical replacement. It's on a deeper psychological level and that's why it's more damaging.