🔍 Not long ago, I spoke here about the danger of autophagy, that moment when artificial intelligence begins to feed on its own output, endlessly recycling the same ideas and impoverishing the diversity of knowledge.
👉 Cognitive autophagy, when humans feed on impoverished content! : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cognitive-autophagy-when-humans-feed-impoverished-content-buschini-d1oje
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👉 Autophagy, when AI feeds on itself : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-autophagy-when-feeds-itself-philippe-buschini-sydee
But there’s another, more intimate risk: the risk of losing even the desire to think.
Imagine a knowledge architect. Every day, they sketch, question, connect ideas. Then one day, a machine offers them the blueprints. Clear, fast, seductive. So they tweak them. They approve. But they no longer question.
AI is not attacking us. It’s helping. And that’s precisely where the shift happens. It spares us the effort — and that effort may be all we have left to remain truly human.
🧠 What if the real danger doesn’t lie in the tool… but in the combination of two phenomena?
– An AI looping endlessly on itself.
– Humans who no longer wish to produce anything different.
