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Some people really can’t understand what AI can do
Posted by on November 20, 2025 at 6:07 pmI recently went to an AI event in Romania because I wanted to hear how people here think about it, how they use it, and where they believe things are heading.
And one thing became very clear: a lot of people still believe AI exists to replace our brain, not support it.
Many were convinced that AI makes you lazy, that it encourages copy paste behavior, that it removes the need to think at all. Someone even said that if students could write their entire thesis in half an hour, they would all choose that without hesitation.
That mindset surprised me, mostly because it is far from how I use AI in marketing.
AI does not think for me and it does not replace my perspective or my ideas.If I have an idea but the words are messy, it helps me organize them.
If I need research or structure, it saves me from hours of repetitive work.That is not replacing thinking.
That is clearing space for BETTER thinking.At the event I heard people say AI is dangerous because it cannot be controlled or because it always tries to give you the answer you want. But that only happens when the person using it does not know how to guide it. Just like teaching someone new on your team, the output depends on the input you give.
So now I am curious how others see it because one of the speakers works in marketing and that is raising some serious questions.
Do you feel AI actually reduces critical thinking, or does it make room for more of it if used the right way?
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Many people use generative AI for the first draft of anything – an email, a letter, code, a translation etc.
This means that these people will, over time, lose the ability to the first draft i.e. the actual hard work.
When these people come up against unprecedented or novel issues where GPT is not that useful, they are likely to struggle.
There are other things – people lose the ability to write coherently and grammatically without the GPT crutch, for example.
Making specific, tailored connections to your real life situation also takes human ingenuity – AI generated writeups have not reached that level yet.
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The comment about students reflects that their assignments have really not evolved to account for AI. It offers a shortcut academically – but ideally schooling would be pivoting to enable what you’re describing – elevated outcomes
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Every new technology 100 per cent replaces know-how. That’s why most of us will starve to death or die in the elements if civilization disintegrates tomorrow.
Having been relieved of the need to hunt, grow food and build shelter, most of us have no idea how to do it.
The hours of work that AI saves you is the work of thinking and crafting.
You will 100 per cent lose skill if you use AI.
The only question the table is, is it worth it?
The danger of AI is the danger we’ve seen elsewhere only more serious.
Tech companies like Microsoft have revolutionized how we do business only to keep raising the price of access. What we once paid to purchase every few years we now pay monthly subscription fees for.
There are free options like Open Office, GIMP, Audition etc.
But the more reliant we become on complex AI and automation tools that are expensive and less likely to be duplicated for free, the more likely we are to find ourselves suddenly frozen out of partipation in professional life.
That is, unless we retain the skills to work without AI.
As for youth using AI to write all their school work, that’s literally already happening.
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You could say the same thing about a lot of technology, namely, that it can be used for learning, for communication and for scientific progress but the large majority is only interested in using it for cat videos.
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