Some time ago, I spoke here about the danger of autophagy, the moment when artificial intelligence starts feeding on its own content, endlessly recycling the same ideas, impoverishing the diversity of knowledge.
But there is another risk, even more intimate: that of relieving us of the very desire to think.
Imagine an architect of knowledge. Every day, he sketches, questions, connects ideas. Then one day, a machine offers him the plans. Clear, fast, appealing. So he adjusts. He approves. But he no longer doubts.
AI does not attack us. It helps us. And that is precisely where the slide happens. It spares us the effort, and that effort is sometimes all we had left to remain truly human.
And what if the greatest danger lay not in the tool… but in the combination of these two phenomena?
An AI going round in circles on itself.
Humans who no longer wish to produce anything else.
Here I try to explore this question in an in-depth piece. Neither dystopian nor starry-eyed. Just clear-sighted.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: When AI thinks for us, should we fear the disappearance of doubt?
