Why AI is making us lose our minds (and not in the way you’d think)

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The world loves AI. Nearly 1 billion people are using OpenAI products — and it happened in just two years. It’s the Silicon Valley playbook: Make it great, make it cheap, get us addicted, then figure out how to make billions.

We love AI because it offers cognitive shortcuts at a whole new scale. But… this won’t end well for most of us. We’ll let AI take over a few tasks, and soon find it’s doing all of them. We’ll lose our minds, our jobs and our opportunities.

But it doesn’t have to happen this way. Here’s how to see the path ahead — and take a different one.

The beginning of the end

In March 2023, I used ...