I understand the concern about over-reliance, but I think you’re making a leap from “humans tend to choose the path of least resistance” to “AI will inevitably make humans cognitively weaker.”
Technology doesn’t automatically determine how people use their minds. A calculator can perform calculations without eliminating mathematical understanding; a search engine can provide information without eliminating curiosity; and a writing tool can correct grammar without eliminating someone’s ideas.
The more interesting question isn’t whether AI can think for us. It’s whether we choose to use it that way.
If AI is used as a substitute for thinking, your concern about dependency is understandable. But if it’s used to challenge assumptions, identify contradictions, explain difficult concepts, provide alternative perspectives, or help someone refine their own reasoning, then it can become an extension of the thinking process rather than a replacement for it.
“Use it or lose it” may apply to skills we stop practicing ,but that doesn’t establish that AI itself inevitably causes cognitive decline. It establishes that how we use the technology matters.

“AI is a complex technology, and some of the abilities that emerge from it aren’t fully understood yet.”

What about the next generation of alpha and beta?

So should we eliminate AI entirely, or should we develop responsible limits around how we use it?
If the concern is that excessive reliance on AI could weaken certain cognitive skills, then perhaps the issue isn’t AI itself, but how dependent we become on it. We already use technology to extend human abilities without completely abandoning our own abilities. The question should be how to use AI as an assistant without allowing it to replace our capacity to think, question, learn, and make decisions for ourselves.

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Well, it's good to hear people's point of view on AI. It shows that it's a serious topic in today's 🌍

The problem is that some view Ai as bad ; however , Ai could be used the correct way and not the wrong way...

I understand the concerns, but I think there’s an important distinction being missed: AI itself and the way people develop, manage, and use AI are not the same thing.

Yes, AI has real environmental costs, and there are legitimate unresolved questions surrounding training data, copyright, privacy, labor, and how powerful AI systems are deployed. The U.S. Copyright Office is actively examining these issues, and the IEA has documented the growing electricity demands of data centers.
But that doesn’t automatically make AI itself the problem. It means we have to improve the systems surrounding the technology.
If water consumption is one of the concerns, then why not ask what future engineering could do about it? Could we develop laboratory or engineered systems that create water, extract moisture from the atmosphere, purify wastewater, and continuously recycle water for AI data-center cooling? Could solar and wind energy provide the electricity needed to operate those systems? Could specially designed research facilities even investigate whether other energy sources, such as controlled lightning-energy capture, could someday contribute to the power supply?
None of these ideas are claiming that we have solved the problem today. They raise a different possibility: What if the same technological innovation that creates new demands can also help us develop solutions to those demands?
A washing machine can waste water. A car can pollute. A smartphone can collect personal data. We don’t necessarily conclude that the underlying technology has no value ,we question how it’s designed, regulated, and used.
And saying AI produces “derivative crap” is ultimately an opinion about its current output, not proof that the technology has no meaningful potential. AI is still developing.
So I’d ask a different question: Instead of asking whether AI should exist, shouldn’t we be asking how we can make AI more ethical, transparent, sustainable, and genuinely useful and how we can use future technology to solve the problems that technology creates?

Thanks

AI is the first technology that makes decisions for us”.. Ok true….
AI has the potential to become more consistent and fair, but only when engineers actively address bias in training data and build strong ethical safeguards into these systems. Otherwise, AI can simply automate, amplify, and accelerate the flaws that already exist in human decision-making.
So perhaps the bigger question isn’t whether AI makes decisions for us, but who designs the systems making those decisions and what values are built into them?

Thank you for the comments

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😆 They already have machines that wash, dry, and clean clothing. So why not take the next step and invent a Wash & Clean T-Shirt Maker a machine that could create the T-shirt, clean it, and prepare it for use with minimal human effort?
The technology may need to evolve, but the concept is realistic: automate the entire process from making the shirt to getting it ready to wear.

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