I'm scared of AI...

Dear Soapboxers, AI is scaring me, and not for the reason you think. Yes, the threat of increasing hacks that could melt down the global economy or trigger nuclear Armageddon is terrifying...but I can't do sh*t about that. What scares me is what AI is doing to my brain. I think I'm getting dumber every time I outsource my thinking to AI. Everything now takes less effort which sounds great, but there's no sense of achievement from it. I haven't taxed myself and I don't deserve the nice chemicals my brain would normally make if I completed some hard work, so it doesn't give me them. It feels like a use it or lose it situation where I'm losing my ability to brain. I read this last week: https://poeticoutlaws.substack.com/p/the-comfortable-life-is-killing-you which explains what I mean far better than I can (because I'm stupider now). Can anyone out there in the Soapbox hivemind share some advice on how to fix this? Or your own thoughts on it? I can't be the only one...

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