AI isn't making people dumber—it's letting dumbness scale, Reddit thread argues
amyowl · reddit · 2026-09-03
A Reddit user's discussion with an AI yields a pointed take: AI isn't making people dumber, but letting more people be dumb faster and at scale. The AI's proposed mitigations: named human approval at high-stakes decision points (hiring, credit, medical), provenance and audit trails by default, slow lanes for consequential automation, mandatory adversarial review, measuring error propagation across pipelines rather than model accuracy, capping agent autonomy, reversibility as a design requirement, and punishing opacity. The deeper fix is cultural: stop treating speed as evidence of competence, and build an aviation-style safety culture for AI-assisted decisions.
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