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AI is turning you basic
Be careful, or your Wild 'N Reckless could soon become Pralines 'N Cream

By Dr. Sandra Matz - C. Blaine Horton
Published September 26, 2025 6:30AM (EDT)


(Salon) As we have seen in recent months, there are many reasons to be nervous about the growth and impact of artificial intelligence. AI is polarizing, it can spread misinformation and there are many signs that it’s coming for our jobs.

These macro issues are worrisome, but there is a quiet and surprisingly more personal danger: AI makes us boring. Not just collectively, but individually.

Recent studies, including our own, have shown that when we use AI for guidance, our interests become more normative and less diverse. Our creative output becomes less unique. Even our selection of the “most important” scientists, athletes or historical figures becomes the same as everyone else’s.

AI turns the infinite diversity that makes humans special into statistically safe sameness. It strips away the parts of each individual’s identity that make us different and collapses our complexity into a unidimensional, static version of who we are and could be. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/09/26/ai-is-turning-you-basic/