🧠 AI obsession erodes critical thinking, memory, and creativity

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🧠 AI obsession erodes critical thinking, memory, and creativity
🏛️ OpenAI locks in the U.S. government with $1/year ChatGPT deal
🎭 Edinburgh Fringe turns AI into grief, glitch, and intimacy on stage
🏺 DeepMind’s Aeneas revives 1,500 years of lost Latin history
🌍 AI triggers global economic fault lines — “winner-take-most” era ahead
⚡ Big Tech pours $400B into AI infrastructure — energy becomes the choke point
🚀 Superintelligence could boost GDP 20%+ — or supercharge inequality
🧬 Alan Turing Institute says AI needs philosophers, artists, and ethics baked in
🤖 GPT-5 launches — real-time reasoning, agent tools, and personality modes
📰 News Corp vs AI — The Art of the Deal becomes The Art of the Steal

The Tech & AI Recap (you’re welcome — this saves you 3 weeks of doomscrolling)

1. 🧠 AI Obsession Is Costing Us Our Human Skills

• Over-reliance on AI is eroding critical thinking, memory, creativity, and ethics.

• MIT + Multiverse: users grow passive and overly trusting of machine output.

• Businesses integrate AI without reinforcing human capability.

• Core risk: cognitive atrophy → loss of long-term personal and professional leverage.

2. 🏛️ OpenAI Is Practically Giving ChatGPT to the U.S. Government

• GSA deal: ChatGPT Enterprise for $1/year to all federal agencies.

• Includes 60 days unlimited use, training, and gov-wide user community.

• Strategic vendor lock-in — once embedded, OpenAI becomes default public AI infrastructure.

• Raises dependency risks on private AI providers for public services.

3. 🎭 AI at Edinburgh Fringe 2025

• Productions explore grief, malfunction, and intimacy with AI.

• Examples: Dead Air, Stampin’ in the Graveyard, Bespoke Romance.

• Artists channel collective unease toward synthetic empathy + identity issues.

• Cultural signal: AI is moving from tech hype into emotional storytelling.

4. 🏺 DeepMind’s Aeneas AI Revives Ancient Latin

• Trained on 176K+ inscriptions over 1,500 years.

• Restores missing text, predicts origin, and dates artifacts with high accuracy.

• Useful in 90% of historian trials; outperforms experts on dating precision.

• AI now accelerates cultural heritage recovery at unprecedented scale.

5. 🌍 AI-Induced Global Economic Upheaval

• AI promises massive productivity gains but disrupts labor + markets.

• “Winner-take-most” → Big Tech + major AI nations pull further ahead.

• SMEs and slow adopters risk collapse.

• This is economic Darwinism, not gradual evolution.

6. ⚡ Big Tech’s $400B AI Infrastructure Arms Race

• Google CapEx: $85B in 2025 (+$10B YoY).

• Amazon, Microsoft also throwing tens of billions into data centers + chips.

• Energy demand now key constraint for AI expansion.

• Compute + energy = real AI battlefield.

7. 🚀 The Economics of Superintelligence

• Automating 30%+ of cognitive tasks → >20% annual GDP growth (EpochAI).

• Gains likely concentrated among elite AI owners.

• Without governance, AGI = inequality amplifier.

• Urgent need for global rules + wealth redistribution frameworks.

8. 🧬 Humanities as Missing Piece in AI

• Alan Turing Institute’s “Doing AI Differently” calls for humanists in AI design.

• Philosophers, ethicists, artists become core architects, not side consultants.

• Goal: prevent “godlike tools with toddler ethics.”

• Embeds cultural + ethical frameworks into AI from inception.

9. 🤖 GPT-5 Launch — From Chatbot to Agent

• Google has massively expanded its index, even as it diverts users to AI-generated summaries.

• Executives downplay the shift, but third-party analytics show declining outbound traffic across sectors.

• OpenAI is rumored to build its own browser. Google’s search is shifting toward AI-driven conversational UI.

• The incentives have flipped: AI companies gain from absorbing web content, not sending traffic back.

10. 📰 News Corp Warns Trump AI Is “Pillaging” The Art of the Deal

• News Corp accuses AI platforms of plundering content from Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal and other works, monetizing his ideas without permission.

• The company says not even a U.S. president is safe from blatant intellectual property theft — dubbing it The Art of the Steal.

• CEO Robert Thomson argues that AI firms are building multi-billion-dollar systems on stolen copyrighted material and must compensate rights holders.

• News Corp is pursuing a two-track strategy: negotiating licensing deals while also preparing and filing lawsuits to protect IP.

• The dispute underscores a broader truth in the AI era: intellectual property is currency, as valuable as compute power — and the next big battleground.

🌱 Bonus Thought: AI isn't an anomaly

It’s part of a familiar historical pattern. Every major technological leap follows a rhythm: initial hype, scattered adoption, internal silos, then a painful reckoning that forces structure, strategy, and security.

Like the internet in the '90s or cloud in the 2010s, AI is now in its messy middle — full of promise, but already creating fragmentation and invisible complexity across systems and teams.

The lesson is clear: without conscious coordination, technology doesn’t unify — it fractures. And AI, despite its intelligence, is no exception.

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