Substack(@Substack):@RuxandraTeslo argues the most neglected AI safety risk isn't a robot takeover, it's the gradual surrender of human thinking: "A calculator relieves us of a quite narrow operation whose purpose we already understand, whereas AI systems can increasingly take over large swathes of mental activity. Often, these are the very activities through which our understanding develops in the first place."

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2026.09.18 20:34

@RuxandraTeslo argues the most neglected AI safety risk isn't a robot takeover, it's the gradual surrender of human thinking: "A calculator relieves us of a quite narrow operation whose purpose we already understand, whereas AI systems can increasingly take over large swathes of mental activity. Often, these are the very activities through which our understanding develops in the first place."