Recently, a friend sent me a beautiful AI-generated infographic summarizing articles I had just published. Vibrant, clear — one glance and you understood everything.
I use AI every day. But I chose not to make that infographic.
Why? Because I love the feeling of ideas naturally sprouting in my own mind when I read. They emerge slowly, connect, then suddenly become something uniquely mine — more alive than any AI image.
A pre-made infographic is just “fast food” for the brain. Convenient, quick, but it doesn’t nourish. It makes us passively receive instead of actively create.
I fear the day we grow so accustomed to AI pre-chewing everything that our minds stop chewing on their own — stop imagining, stop creating.
That’s when humans begin to shrink their brains.
Use AI as a tool. Never let it become your mind.