Outsourcing Humanity |
Even I can’t imagine doing a university assignment today without consulting AI first. What began as a clever shortcut has quietly become my default first step, a tiny hit of certainty and relief every time I feel stuck. If this is true for a 27-year-old fourth‑year university student, what does it mean for teenagers growing up with it in their pockets from day one?
Humanity is growing in numbers and technology, yet shrinking in the qualities that make it human. We are becoming secondary to the process of thinking itself. The same capacity that once made us unique and creative is now quietly eroding under the comfort of AI‑based, systematic thinking. If we uproot that first, messy stage of struggle and curiosity, we hand our fate to something, or someone external.
This erosion is most worrying in the very place meant to protect our ability to think: education. School and university are supposed to be training grounds for critical thinking, creativity, problem‑solving and character. These are called “soft skills,” but in........