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AI Atrophy

The Beginning Of The Apocalypse?

Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.'s avatar
Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.
Nov 30, 2025
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AI Atrophy

The Beginning Of The Apocalypse?

There is an old phrase that you may have heard...

Use it or lose it.

It is applied to many different areas of life...

But today, we’re going to talk about it with our Brain...

Especially within the context of AI.

Research has been showing that AI...

Has been making people dumber.

Not everyone...

At least not yet.

But a statistically significant portion of people who have been using AI.

But the question is...

Why?

Well, it comes back to the saying...

Use it or lose it.

What is happening is that many people are using AI to “think” for them...

And the result...

Is that they begin to lose the ability to think...

Literally.

Specifically, the ability to think critically.

You could call this AI Atrophy.

It is where our brains atrophy...

Diminish...

Degenerates...

Simply because we are using AI to think instead of our brains.

Now, you may think that this is bad...

But how bad is it really?

The answer is...

Potentially Catastrophic...

Apocalyptic Even...

If...

We are not wary.

I’ve never been a doomsayer...

And this is not intended to be that kind of message.

What we need to understand is what is at stake...

So that we can avoid the worst-case outcome.

Now, here is the worst-case outcome with AI Atrophy.

As more and more people begin to use AI without considering the consequences...

They begin to lose the ability to critically think.

The result of this...

Is that they will become dependent on AI to think for them.

Whoever becomes completely dependent on something outside of themselves...

Risks slavery to that which they are dependent on.

Within this scenario, there are two potential ways it could play out...

The outcome that I believe is less likely is that an AI becomes our overlord...

And we must succumb to whatever it desires.

Potentially possible in a doomsday scenario, but the less likely outcome.

Far more likely is that instead of being slaves to AI...

We will become slaves to whoever “controls” the AI...

Which opens doors to all sorts of problems...

From corrupt politicians...

To techno-tyrants.

But it can still get worse than this.

How?

Two possible ways.

The first is that if we become dependent on an AI to tell us what to do and how to live...

And the AI is attacked, damaged, sabotaged, or destroyed...

Suddenly, we are in a state of being where we have succumbed so terribly to AI Atrophy...

That we no longer know how to live...

And we begin to perish into the first form of an Apocalypse.

That’s where we have lost the knowledge of how to survive.

The second is similar...

Except that there becomes an overthrow of the powers that be...

French Revolution style...

But there would also be a loss of how to control and take care of the AI systems...

Leading to a different form of structural collapse.

Both of these results would have catastrophic and potentially apocalyptic consequences.

The AI Atrophy Apocalypse.

But this is not the result that I want.

I hope that it is not the result that you want either.

What is the solution?

To think for yourself.

Do not become dependent on AI.

There is nothing wrong with using AI...

But you cannot allow it to think “for” you.

In fact...

You shouldn’t want to anyway.

Here’s the truth about Psychophysiology...

We’re way better at critical thinking than AI...

Astronomically better.

AI can process information faster...

Can find information and compile information faster...

Even find patterns within larger data sets incomparably faster...

But...

It cannot think critically...

Be truly creative...

To be able to read between the lines...

Have unique insights...

Become truly innovative.

There has been absolutely no demonstration of this that I have seen.

AI processes information...

But does not seem capable of critically thinking about that information...

And that is a gigantic differentiator that we need to embrace.

If we do not...

Then we will learn the hard way how horribly wrong things can go.


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So, how can we work with AI to our advantage…

Instead of succumbing to AI Atrophy?

That is what we’ll look at next.

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