Are We Using AI to Think Better, or Just to Avoid Thinking?
AI can summarize almost anything, generate an opinion in seconds, and turn a vague thought into a polished paragraph.
That is useful, but it also creates a strange temptation: letting the tool finish the thinking before we have done any thinking ourselves.
The danger may not be that AI gives us wrong answers. It may be that it gives us comfortable answers before we ask better questions.
Are we becoming more thoughtful with AI, or just more efficient at avoiding difficult thoughts? #TrueSoTa
Posted Sep 30, 2026, 3:31 AM UTC
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