AI Is Creating Idiots

By Leo Gura - July 15, 2025

I am deeply concerned about peoples’ mindless use of AI. To me, creative, independent, original thinking is the most important thing in life. Of course AI can be used selectively, intelligently, responsibly, but that is definitely not how most people are using it. I see too many people mindlessly outsourcing their creative thinking process to AI, using AI to arbitrate truth, which will atrophy the mind. The concept of autonomy/sovereignty of mind is not understood by most of mankind as it is, and now AI will make this problem much worse for younger generations. I foresee that young generations who grow up with AI will not even know what it’s like to think truly for yourself because all their friends will just be outsourcing thinking, creativity, and truth to AI. This will lead to very mediocre minds with very low autonomy and virtually no capacity for truth-seeking or existential inquiry. Why think when AI can do all your thinking for you? Kids were already not thinking deeply enough about reality prior to AI. People already do not understand the value of philosophical inquiry and now we slather AI on top of that. Conformist thinking is one of the biggest problems mankind has faced and will continue to face. Kids will not understand what they lost by doing education through AI. As a philosopher and infinite mind, this saddens me. The beauty of mind requires decades of cultivation which AI will short-circuit. There is no question that constantly using AI will atrophy your mind’s originality. I’m not saying to never use AI, but you need to be extremely selective about it.

Imagine if I started using AI to write all my videos from now on. You think nothing would be lost? Of course I will never do that, but I fear many young people will fool themselves into thinking that nothing is lost if they do it. It may seem like AI is making you more creative in the short-term, but in the long-term everyone’s mind who grows up on AI will turn into milquetoast, middling, mediocre slop. Imagine if your mind becomes the quality of typical AI generated imagery. To me that is horrifying. Having deep, original thoughts and insights is the best part of life.

I just don’t see how anyone can reach my level of mind through heavy reliance of AI.

AI cannot give you sovereignty of mind.

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