Brainpowerless

Are you diminishing your brainpower by using AI?

I hope so.

Let me rephrase that. Have you diminished aspects of your brainpower by cognitively offloading… first to paper, then to digital?

Moving forward requires letting

go.

Recording things instead of remembering them. Reading knowledge you otherwise wouldn’t have gained. Running calculations far too complicated to ever do on your own.

We are a tool-making species. Like all our advancements, the problem isn’t the technology. It’s how we each choose to use it – and for what purposes.

Thinking that aspirational aims like “for the good of humanity” will guide us all. While conveniently overlooking the simple fact that humanity has differing and richly diverse ideas about what “good” means.

Which like so many things in life is a problem… and an opportunity. Knowing that many of the human dynamics of life and work are far too complex to ever be reduced to a machine algorithm.

No matter how powerful our new intelligence tools might become.

In many ways, compared to you they will always be power

less.