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Be aware-“BE AWARE.” I just saw someone eating away at your creativity, critical, and super-imaginative thinking. Aren’t you scared? The most unsettling part is, that it was you who gave it the permission to do so. Whether consciously or unconsciously, you opened the door.

AI has moved quicky from a buzzword to a tool that we use daily. In the short span of four to five years it has woven itself into every fabric of our society. This is a triumph, until we begin using it as a substitute for the labor of learning; solving our problems before we have even truly looked them in the eye.

In today’s AI driven world, we have become tourists of ideas rather than inhabitants of them. A tourist merely glimpses the view and moves on; a creator stays to understand the architecture. AI was designed as a powerful assistant meant to elevate us, not a crutch that leaves us atrophied. It was supposed to help us discover unexplored paths and achieve deeper results, rather than just helping us “get through “the day.

But should we blame the machine? No. we cannot blame a tool for our own dependency. It is like a king who became so reliant on this supervisor that he forgets how to rule. He stops practicing his own skills, and eventually, he loses his throne to his subordinate who eventually mastered the qualities of his leader. We have reached a phase where we are dismantling the very trait that make us human- the same creative logical traits we once taught AI to mimic now to forget them ourselves.

We ask AI to do everything for us: from painting Ghibli-inspired art to solving the fifty-year-old biological riddle of protein folding. We even use it to build “griefbots” attempting to reincarnate the dead through algorithms. While some of this is good, but what about the rest? Instead of upskilling, we use these algorithms to write our emails, our texts, and our art; the very thing our own brain were designed to imagine with depth and color. To create the future we want, we must first be able to imagine it ourselves.

In 1964, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that the “most intelligent inhabitants of the future won’t be men or monkeys; they’ll be machines.” We are watching this vision breathe. Am I trying to frighten you? No. I believe that those who are truly scared are simply those who don’t put in the effort to study their threat inside out.

I want you to use this technology to accelerate forward, but with your hands itching over the brake. Do not trust it blindly. Do not surrender to the seductive convenience of AI. Master the art of collaborating with it as your personal assistant, but never forget how the engine works. Don’t let it manipulate you or dictate the final answer. Don’t you ever let the supervisor take the throne.

Don’t end up being the king who forget how to lead.