So today I want to talk about the risk nobody’s selling you a course on. Not because the other risks don’t matter. But because this is the one that decides whether AI makes you sharper or smaller. And by the end, I’ll give you a simple way to stay on the right side of it.
Intro
The video is from a teacher I respect, someone who’s spent about twenty years in this world as a CEO and an investor. He walks through five problems with AI. The black box, that even the people building it can’t fully explain how it reaches its answers. Bias, that it learns our worst patterns along with our best. The truth crisis, how easily it blurs what’s real. And the arms race, companies moving faster than any of us can keep up with. Watch it. It’s worth your time.
But here’s where I want to go further. Because there’s a fifth thing he names that I think is the real one for you and me. What AI does to our thinking.
The cognition risk
Here’s the quiet danger. AI is so good, so fast, so confident, that it’s easy to stop thinking and just accept. You ask, it answers, you paste, you move on. And the muscle you used to use, the one that wrestled with the problem, formed the opinion, found your own words, that muscle stops getting used. And like any muscle, it weakens when you don’t.
This is the part that matters for your business. Your edge was never speed. AI wins on speed every time. Your edge is your judgment. Your taste. The way only you see the problem. The moment you hand that away, you don’t just save time. You give away the one thing that made you worth hiring.
There’s an author I love, David Bayer, who wrote a book called A Changed Mind. One of the things he teaches is that you are not your thoughts. You get to watch them, question them, and choose which ones to believe. AI makes that skill more important, not less. Because now you also get to choose which thoughts are even yours.
The Reframe
Land it clearly.
So here’s the belief at the center of this whole show. AI is not here to think for you. It’s here to think with you. Used one way, it makes you sharper. Used the other way, it makes you dependent. And the difference isn’t the tool. It’s whether you do your own thinking first.
Key Takeaway
So here’s the practice. Before you ask AI anything that actually matters, write your own answer first. Even three messy lines. Your rough take, in your own words, before you see its polished one.
Two things happen. You stay the author, and AI becomes the editor, instead of the other way around. And you’ll instantly feel which ideas are yours and which ones you were about to borrow without noticing. Think first. Then ask. That order is everything.
If staying the thinker in all of this is what you care about, that’s exactly what the weekly letter is about. One email, every Monday, from me. Free, no noise. It’s at madeintelligent.co, and the link’s in the show notes.
The world does need AI. But it needs people who still know how to think even more.
Don’t trade your mind for a faster answer. Use the faster answer to make your mind sharper.
I’m so glad you’re here. Choose the intelligent thought. I’ll see you in the next one.