Agenda
We were promised that AI would free our creativity. In some ways, it has. I’m a happier journalist because no one has to manually subtitle videos. But as I study our profession through the lens of cyberpsychology, I see a terrible trade-off emerging, one we’re not talking about.
We embraced AI to support productivity, delegate repetitive, tedious tasks, and solve burnout, yet how many of us feel more exhausted than ever? This begs an unsettling question: In our rush to delegate drudgery, what if we’re accidentally outsourcing the very soul of our work? The insight, the spark, the ‘Aha!’ moment?
How this technology is changing our identity is the most urgent story of all. I believe the path forward isn't found in the next algorithm. The clue might be far simpler. If you still hang your clothes on a drying rack somewhere in the world, then we still have time to get this right.
