“Think Outside the Bots”: How to Stop AI from Turning Your Brain to Mush

“What’s happening with AI is that for the first time it’s giving us an easy way to trade processes for products,” Greene says. The essay can sound better. The presentation can appear sharper. The retirement party joke can hit home perfectly. But the mental work, the struggle, the false starts, and the moment when something finally clicks are exactly what your brain needs. “It’s like being in the gym and a robot lifting the dumbbells for you,” he says. “You get nothing.”