AI’s promise was it would liberate us from busywork. Instead, it’s becoming a new dependency. Maybe it’s an email you didn’t feel like writing. A brainstorm you didn’t feel inspired to lead. Code that would take you hours to program. A bio or outline that felt just a bit too hard to begin.

You used to do these things on your own. But now AI makes it so easy to skip the effort that you barely notice you’re outsourcing your thinking. I use AI to research companies for my venture fund, deep dive into new industries and technical topics, design presentations, and record my meetings. I am an advocate for AI use and literacy, but the more my work started to become intertwined with AI, the more I started to think about the looming digital addiction crisis.

So I wasn’t surprised to see that some

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