I had a horrifying conversation with someone once.

They said their writing had declined in quality since using AI.

This made me question deeply the nature of our relationship with tools to improve our life and make things more convenient.

The calculator means I don’t have to use pen and paper, nor even understand or engage in mathematics.

I can figure things out just by pressing buttons.

I sometimes wonder how this hurts my life, how my thinking suffers for the invisible debt of not understanding theorems or formulas.

Would it change how I think?

I look at people using AI and to me it’s all backward.

Most people use it to skip thinking.

Mathematics I can live without, but I know I’m missing something beautiful, I can tell.

What does AI invite us to live without?

Thinking?