I’ve been observing something lately , we’re getting addicted to Artificial Intelligence.
Not in a healthy, empowering way… but in a quietly dangerous one.
AI was supposed to make us better. Smarter. Faster. More creative But what i feel it’s slowly doing, is making us dependent.
Today, we brag about being “prompt engineers.” We spend hours figuring out how to talk to a machine instead of learning how to think better as humans. We rely on algorithms to draft our emails, design our logos, write our speeches, plan our days, even tell us what to eat.
A colleague recently told me he uses AI for everything, every email, every chat message, even to decide how to respond in a conversation.
in my mind, i ask.. .what has he achieved? more free time? or less brain activity?
Kids now ask AI for help with their homework instead of figuring it out through curiosity. Speakers and trainers ask AI to build their lessons, design their stories, even write their jokes. Priests are turning to AI for homilies and sermons. It’s much, much more… and it’s growing too fast.
At what point did we stop trusting our own intelligence? or own empathy towards creativity.. There’s a fine line between AI empowering you to work better and AI doing all your work for you. One builds your capacity while The other numbs it.
I often think back to the movie I, Robot. Remember how the robots took over everything, from decision-making to carrying your groceries?
Humans became passengers in their own lives. And when something went wrong, they didn’t even know how to fix it because they’d forgotten how. The same in the movie Wall-E … people forgot they had legs and hands and feet. coz Ai did everything for them.
We’re dangerously close to that reality. We’ve built tools that can think, but we’ve stopped thinking deeply ourselves.
We’ve built systems that can imagine, but we’ve stopped imagining without them.
We’ve built intelligence… but not wisdom.
The truth is, technology isn’t the villain here, our laziness is. We’re not losing control to machines; we’re surrendering it willingly and we complain AI will take away our jobs.
SO not to be a hypocrite… Do i use AI ? Yes, awfully a lot. But not to prompt engineer, not to do my work, not automate to a point of boredom. but to learn from it. Understand, debate, question, challenge AI to teach, guide, train and do much more to build me up. Yes i take ideas, but i rebuild it up from scratch from learning.. Yes.. i check for spellings, grammar and then debate with it why does it recommend it that way. And guess what .. i found that AI fails so many times that i get frustrated. but im happy im human enough to challenge it wrong. but learn from its abilities at the same time.
AI should serve us, not substitute us. It should build us stronger, not make us spectators of our own potential. It should enhance our humanity, not replace it.
Because if we keep letting AI think, write, speak, and decide for us,one day, we might wake up and realize we’ve outsourced our very sense of self. So here’s my question to you: Are you using AI to grow or to avoid growing completely?
