Issue 210, May 1, 2025
From time to time we write about AI and its potential to change society, how humans think (or not), and how humans may alleviate themselves from responsibilities and rely on AI instead. That said, we will always ring the bell on the necessity for critical thinking and leveraging our human abilities and the great minds that we have over AI.
Today we want to bring you a provocative case study to demonstrate how AI can be both friend and foe. AI can alter how we think, feel and behave. It can also shape a future that we have little agency in creating. The study illustrates how AI can be an objective source of information to help counter our subjectivity and emotions that often compromise our decision-making. AI can also be a tool to cut through times when we are so paralyzed with anxiety, fear and confusion that we simply cannot formulate the path forward.
This case study is a short story about the many faces of AI. It illustrates who has the ultimate power of AI’s po…
