AI Is Making You Think Less - And No One Is Accountable | Ruth Carter
- ODECI Consulting Group
- Apr 3
- 1 min read
The most dangerous thing about your AI assistant isn't that it gets things wrong.
It's that it gets things right enough for you to stop thinking.
Ruth Carter borrows a term from neuroscience to describe what's happening: cognitive atrophy.
The kind that comes not from injury - but from disuse.
She has data showing it's already playing out:
→ Users' prompts are getting shorter over time → Vocabulary in AI-assisted work is simplifying → The capacity for interdisciplinary thinking is declining
She spent a year building an ethical architecture while everyone else published another critique.
Her core principle: "Something that cannot face consequences should never make human decisions."
That is not a philosophy. That is a design requirement. - Aakarsh Sharma - The Human Layer AI Podcast
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