AI Cold Showers

The author curates a list of articles highlighting concerns about AI overreliance that could erode essential human capacities—such as critical thinking, authentic effort, and decision-making autonomy—even as AI tools become more capable. The central worry is not AI making technical mistakes, but rather how delegating human judgment to AI systems removes the "human in the loop" who has accountability, potentially transforming humans into passive assistants to machines rather than active collaborators enhanced by them.