The Slow Surrender

[gentle music] When did we stop thinking for ourselves? The most dangerous thing about AI is not that it can write essays for you or perform a tedious task you don't want to sit with, but it's how easy it makes everything feel, because human beings have always chased convenience.

We want things that are easy, fast, and instantaneous.

Let me give you an example to truly understand what I'm trying to describe.

Imagine this, a student sits down to write an essay.

They are not bad students and not a lazy student either, just picture a regular student like everyone else.

So they open their laptop, they have the ideas, but the ideas are not fully developed.

The ideas will take time to develop, so the student would need to think through it and figure out the points he wants to use in his essay.

So instead of doing all of that, they ask AI, "Help me structure this.

Give me a better version of this.

Make it sound, uh, smarter." And within seconds they get an answer from AI with a very polished essay that is clear and impressive, something they would not have been able to produce by themselves, at least not without effort and not without sitting through the painstaking process.

So they have this wonderful essay that AI has, has written, right, ready to be handed in, and they submit it.

And guess what? They get a good grade and move on.

Now, did you notice anything wrong in that process? Because there is something that is supposed to happen in that process that did not happen.

That is, they didn't struggle through the idea.

They've not done any mental exercise.

They didn't wrestle with confusion trying to figure out a concept.

They didn't sit long enough to understand the topic deeply, enough to have the light bulb moment or an aha moment.

They rob themselves of the most important parts of that process, and that is where the real shift is happening, because thinking is more than just getting answers, but more about what happens to you in between the process while trying to figure answers out.

That feeling of finally figuring something out, it does something important in the human psych.

So that's the-- That's aside, but we need to understand that what I described now is what builds patience.

It's what sharpens human reasoning and forces clarity.

But if something else does that for you, what exactly are you developing? And what exactly have you done? Now, let's look at it from this angle.

When the student becomes a professional, meaning deadline increases, expectations grow, and AI is still there, probably faster.

So what do you think they are going to do? Of course, they will use AI again to write, to analyze, to think through problems.

And it's not even because they can't do it themselves, but because they don't have to anymore.