The Human View: What we Lose When AI Takes Over Our Responsibilities

You might noticed that nowadays, when you type something on your phone, it finishes the sentence for you before you even do. if you search for something you want to buy, another app would suggests what to wear with it or where should you go wearing it. It is like someone else is deciding every single thing for us without us recognising it properly. It has become so normal that we've gotten used to it without realizing the consequences.

What We've Actually Handed Over

Lets think about how much we have quitely outsourced in the last few years. We do not remember phone numbers now a days our phones do, we do not even navigate our maps on our mobile phones do that for us. We don't decide what music to listen, what to eat what to wear anymore, the algorithm recommendations lead us toward an answer before we could asked the questions to overselves. Even we are being so dependent over AI that we don't have the energy to sit with our problems to find a solution, we ask AI to find a solution for us.

Right now none of these activities or changes feel like a big deal but it has severe consequences that we don't even imagine. These activities used to entirely ours before we allow AI to take over our life decisions.

What We Gain vs What We Quietly Lose

To be honest, this trade is not one sided. We save a lot of time by usuing AI for example, the mental fatigue of figuring out routes and searching things which may consume our whole day, now we can have it in one click. So there is as well value in that, which is worth acknowledging.

As we all know the trade also have some bad sides as well, the first and primary thing we are losing is our skill, our skill to write something on our own, to summerize a story, Forming a engaging sentence is become hard these days. People doubt their creative thinking and ask AI to reshape it. In this way we are losing the most crucial element of human nature which is our skill, to do something on our own.

Next important thing is the struggle itself, people are too scared to sit with their own struggle. If someone is having a metal breakdown he/she just asked AI about the reason rather than questioning their own self and then They are doing the thing which AI recommended them to do.

Now the problem which is occuring is that we are losing the personal connection to our own choices. Before we even choose something, where to go, what book should i read and plainning a trip etc. This actually affecting our critical thinking. When the algoritham makes the choice for us it is somehwere good but it is not entirely ours because there are things beyound our algorithm recomendations which we fail to notice.

That does not mean AI is enrirely terrible for us, The overuse and overconsumtion of anything in the world causes destruction in human life. Using AI for the right reasons for the right purpose it really essential in todays world. Technologies are somethig human should control, letting technologies control you give rise to severe outcomes.