We are pouring extraordinary amounts of money, electricity, infrastructure, and ambition into making artificial intelligence more capable. But how much are we investing in the people expected to use it wisely?

That imbalance sits at the heart of a provocative new essay in Psychology Today by Cornelia C. Walther. Her concern is not simply that AI is accelerating. It is that the human abilities AI is meant to extend—attention, memory, judgment, imagination, language, and agency—can weaken when assistance quietly becomes substitution.

That distinction matters. A tool can help us reach farther while still leaving us responsible for the reaching. But when the tool routinely remembers, drafts, interprets, and reasons for us, our role can shrink from creating thought to merely approving output.

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