AI Makes You Lazy

My previous lecturer posted on Linkedin of how people completed a task in designing a transport system for an airport, without even reading the resources he attached with his assignment. He asked if people were too quick on arriving to a conclusion (which is a big no-no in Systems Engineering thinking). I think he’s wrong; people simply pasted the assignment into AI and pasted it back as assignment completed. Most likely people didn’t even read their own assignments. In the old days, TV shows have bullies submitting homework from their bullied victims and it will later lead to an embarrassment because the work will have some mistakes, but with AI, this is rarely happening. Or people are just not embarrassed anymore?

Anyways I don’t want to be the kettle as I’ve realised that I have also become lazy in most aspects. When asked for opinions, I now will ask AI to do it. They usually come with a plausible answer(s), so much so, that I have now rarely questioned them back. I have delegated my thinking to them. That said, I don’t ask AI questions that have great consequences, but still, it has made me lazy.

Amazing how a few years have made our way (or at least my way) of thinking to change. Excited (and worried) to see how humans will use AI in the new feature.

Thank you for reading.