If I had a tin foil fat, I’d slap it on my noggin and say this…

Yesterday, I was telling a client how I found it interesting how AI use trends crashed over the summer because students and teachers alike are the biggest power users of AI. 

Her response to this was even more shocking: 

She’s a nutritionist that’s very much involved in the world of biohacking and she told me that she read a recent study about how AI is increasing dementia rates because when you outsource your #1 cognitive function, thinking, to a run-of-the-mill chatbot thingy, you don’t actually learn or retain whatever it spits out to you. The act of learning, retaining, and thinking is how you keep your brain sharp - it’s a muscle that atrophies without use just like any other. 

My follow-up research on this subject this morning was even more shocking:

First, Google’s wonderful AI overview immediately smacked down my “ai increases dementia risk query” with the Orwellian answer of, “no, it doesn’t do that and in fact, it probably actually decreases the dementia risk.” It of course said this in many more words because AI never learned brevity. Apparently there was even a recent “scientific journal" that found evidence that this claim is false. Only problem is, if Big Pharma has paid something like 60% of researchers at the big journals, you don’t think these weird, chubbed-up-for-AI tech bros would do the same?

The answer is quite obvious: Outsourcing your literal brain and cognitive function to so-called AI cannot be good for your noggin. 

But allow me to take it a couple steps even further, cully:

If I had a tin foil fat, I’d slap it on my noggin and say this…

There’s something deeply sinister and unsettling about the AI push and bubble we’re in right now. In fact, methinks that it’s akin to the covid virus - something sinister that was purposely unleashed on humanity because whoever our true adversary is is deeply antagonist to our species.  

I don’t know if it's full-blown lizard people, actual demons, or some kind of artificial intelligence-based master race. 

But I do know that so-called AI is set up in such a way that tricks us humans into detesting what makes us human - whether that be thinking, procreating, or creating. 

Of course, I could be completely wrong and sound like a buffoon in a couple of years. 

Who knows. 

My point is this: 

Don’t be quick to use AI to replace you. 

Just watch any sci-fi movie of the last 50 years to see this doesn't turn out good for our species. 

The good news, at least as it comes to one marketing channel (email), is that humans write more profitable emails than so-called AI can anyway. 

Hit reply if you’d like to see this for yourself in your own business.

John