AI Will Make Us Dumber

[Spiritual Warfare]

AI will make us dumber because it will act as a prosthesis for human intelligence, causing natural intelligence to atrophy. Say you had biotic pants that allow you to run faster and farther than you can naturally. As long as you wear these biotic pants, you can pretend to be the world’s fastest human. This illusion flatters the ego and can be addictive in terms of self-esteem.

But since these pants do all the work, your natural legs will atrophy, get weaker, and your natural stride will get awkward. Without the pants, you will get slower. There will be a dependency on the pants to avoid facing this hard reality. One will start to live in an alternate reality where skinny, weak legs with bionic pants is the new athletic.

If you look at cell phones today, people are forgetting how to deal with reality as an individual. Instead, many need to constantly call, text, or search for advice or approval. The social network has data and knowledge advantages, but the individual without this cell phone prosthesis has lost the natural ability to cope. It is similar to an addiction. When buzzed, the person feels more like themselves, but when sober, something feels missing. This is why tech is easy to sell.

Years back, it was common for married couples to go on long drives for vacation. If they got lost, the stereotypical wife would want to stop and ask for directions. The stereotypical husband would prefer to find his own way. Today, with cell phones, most cars only have wives, since very few men still have the skills to improvise without asking the GPS. Many male brains have lost the ability to self-visualize directions. The GPS does such a good job that nobody seems to notice this until the network goes down.

As technology and AI improve and reach more aspects of life, the increasing dependency will dumb us down in more ways. Human and technology will meet but at a level that is less than full human potential. The dependency effect will then allow the AI to appear to exceed the dumbed-down version of humans unconsciousness.