Let’s be honest, we’ve all become a little too cozy with our digital babysitter, Artificial Intelligence.
Need to think? Nah, just ask ChatGPT.
Need ideas? Pinterest will hand them to you.
Need to sound smart? Copy-paste from a bot.
We’ve traded curiosity for convenience and it’s honestly humiliating.
Think about it.
Humans built pyramids without blueprints, painted ceilings in cathedrals without AI prompts and sent people to the moon using math done by hand.
Today? We can’t even decide what to eat without “AI meal suggestions". We don’t plan trips anymore, we let an app do it. We don’t even write our own love letters, ChatGPT gets more romantic than we do.
Our ancestors spent decades perfecting skills. We spend 10 seconds typing “make this sound better.”
Students are the worst hit. Essays are written by bots. Homework by ChatGPT. College applications? AI polishes them till they all sound the same, flawless but soulless. Even art students are letting image generators paint for them. The irony? We’re using artificial tools to express human creativity. That’s like wearing someone else’s face to take a selfie.
And adults aren’t doing much better. AI writes our emails, edits our selfies, and tells us what captions will “perform best.” We don’t brainstorm anymore, we “prompt.” We don’t think, we scroll. Even at work, people brag about “AI productivity hacks” while forgetting the actual hack is thinking for yourself.
Remember when we used to ask why? Now we just ask how fast. We don’t research, we summarize. We don’t debate, we generate. We’ve become so efficient that we’ve made thinking look like an optional skill.
AI is supposed to assist us, not replace our intellect. It’s a tool, not a brain transplant. But most people treat it like autopilot for life. The scary part? The more we rely on it, the more we lose the ability to do things without it. Can you still write a speech from scratch? Sketch an idea on paper? Remember a phone number? Or does your device do all that “thinking” for you?
Let’s face it, AI doesn’t care about your creativity. It doesn’t feel pride after solving a problem or joy after making something new. It just processes commands. Meanwhile, we the most imaginative species on Earth are slowly outsourcing our spark.