AI can make brilliant minds sound polished while erasing what made them brilliant.

Cognitive injustice is a drift, not a decision that's disguised as progress.

What atrophies isn't just your voice, but the willingness to think as only you can.

Today, I'm seeing a particular kind of loss that can go unrecognized. There's no alarm that sounds and no obvious failure that jumps out at you. Solutions are still found, and the work still gets done. But something's missing that is difficult to name until you've seen it and felt the discomfort that follows along.

I know people—genuinely brilliant people—whose writing has changed since they began relying on artificial intelligence. Not changed for the worse in a conventional sense. Their sentences are cleaner, and their structure is so well-crafted. But the voice is gone. The unexpected (or perhaps even expected) turn of phrase or the cognitive leaps that only this unique mind would make have been lost. The magic I expected just isn't there. What's left is fluency without fingerprints.

To me, this is a great cognitive injustice.

Let me unpack this a bit. Injustice implies a wrong and a........

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