Kerby Anderson

Many of the concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence focus on AI and should instead focus on the human using it. That is why Christians Schneider warns about “The Danger of Outsourcing Our Brains.” Apparently, many are lazy and quite willing to let AI manage their lives.

He says the social media market “is now saturated with artificial-intelligence-powered social media ‘managers’ that will take care of the drudgery of posting content, liking other people’s photos, and commenting on their posts.” You can fully automate your online experience and not even have to generate the typical replies of LOL or appropriate emojis.

Dating websites are rolling out AI “wingmen” that write dating profiles for people and contact others. Of course, we have also heard about customized chatbots that can fill the relationship void and the loneliness epidemic.

AI makes cheating on college campus even easier. One survey of 1,000 college students discovered that 90 percent of them has used ChatGPT to help with their homework. I have seen one complaint from a student that not only were her fellow students using AI to write papers, but her professors were often using AI to grade those papers and offer comments.

Whenever we talked about AI in the past, we feared Skynet and Terminators with glowing eyes. But the real problem is that we decided to stop thinking and creating. We decided to let the machines do the work for us.

I am quite willing to let a machine do hard, dangerous work for me, but I am not willing to stop thinking and creating so a machine can do it for me. We should be using the gifts God has given us rather than expecting a machine to do our thinking and creating for us.