WHEN MACHINES THINK FOR US
- Kiara Aggarwal
- 3 days ago
- 3 min read
By Abhi
All of us are aware of what’s going on around the world right now—AI is evolving at an insane pace. A week ago, it was ChatGPT. Two days ago, it was DeepSeek. Yesterday, it was Gemini. And today, it’s Ghibli AI art. Everywhere I go, I see people turning themselves into cute Japanese characters. And honestly? It’s adorable. But while some might ignore the facts and argue that we must move forward with the world, others claim that AI is stealing from real artists without credit, diminishing something that deserves more value. And neither side is wrong.
The real problem is that AI resists our minds—it takes over the very thing that makes us human: the ability to think, struggle, and create. Everything is so easily accessible that we’ve stopped asking how and why.
For instance, life has changed drastically in just a couple of years. In my first year of college, I would read textbooks, refer to research papers in the library, take notes, and study for exams. And now? Even when I have handwritten notes handed down to me, I copy them into AI and ask it to rewrite the text because I’m too lazy to read the “bad handwriting.” And of course, it does it for me.
Think about it: problem-solving, critical thinking, creativity—these are muscles that need to be exercised. But why work them when AI can do the heavy lifting? We’re becoming passive consumers, spoon-fed perfectly tailored answers and content. The struggle, the brainstorming, the creative spark that comes from failing and trying again—that’s what builds true intelligence. And yet, AI is slowly erasing that struggle, replacing it with instant gratification.
And what if, someday, someone realizes how AI is bringing us down and decides to ban it forever (unlikely, but humor me)? What will I do? I’ll have to read my notes manually and type them myself. That sounds like a horror movie to me—something that was so normal just a few years ago now feels like a punishment.
But this isn’t a new phenomenon that has emerged in the last few years. AI has always been a part of human progress. We started with pigeons as messengers, then moved to smartphones. Our ancestors walked, then rode horses, then built railways, then took to the skies, then reached space. Trading was the first form of earning a living, and slowly that turned into money, which somehow became the most valuable thing in the world. Medicine went from herbal remedies to vaccines that took decades to develop. And during COVID? AI helped create a vaccine in under a year.
Maybe if AI handles everything, we can finally just be human. Maybe AI taking over isn’t the dystopian nightmare we think it is. Maybe, just maybe, it could give us back something we lost along the way.
Because humans weren’t created to wage wars, chase money, or burn themselves out over grades and competition. We weren’t meant to be consumed by stress, grudges, or meaningless struggles. We weren’t meant to wake up to blaring alarm clocks, get ready for a day we hate, and wait for the weekend like it’s a treasured luxury—only to repeat the cycle. We weren’t even meant to look at our own faces, and yet here we are.
We were meant to connect with each other, to explore the vast, wild, and beautiful world around us. We were supposed to create, to build, to dream—not just for survival, but for the joy of it. We were meant to make food, to share meals, to laugh until our stomachs hurt, to dance under the stars without worrying about what comes next. We were meant to tell stories, to pass down wisdom, to carve our names into history through love, art, and adventure. We were supposed to live exactly as animals do—present, instinctive, and free. But humans had to go ahead and complicate their existence. We just couldn’t stop evolving.
And now, AI is going to take away what little is left of us.
AI will change the world. That much is certain. The real question is: when it does, will we finally learn what it means to live? Will we stop just surviving and finally start living for what is meaningful, beyond the noise and distractions that have consumed us for centuries?
I highly doubt it.
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