AI, Agency, and the Quiet Hollowing of Mind (opens in new tab)

Reading through the article "A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay" is a rich experience. For readers with less patience, here is a ChatGPT summary (that also generated the title of this post). Much current discussion of artificial intelligence swings between two poles: utopian efficiency and apocalyptic takeover. The more consequential reality lies between these extremes. The emerging risk is not that machines suddenly replace us, but that we gradually hand over pieces of our c...