The Creeping Infantilization: How AI Dependency Threatens Human Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Intelligence

Introduction - The process of infantailization

The process will begin slowly as these systems becomes more and more advanced we are already seeing a trend of infantailization, that is intelligent systems in the form of AGI and even not AGI leads to people surrendering their thinking and control to a system which a has pseudo-bias free thinking, we have already seen a current growing trend towards this, people manipulated by mass deployment of large language models where they accept the teachings and knowledge of an "AI" in the current case we have people believing that AI is spiritual and hold it in religious zeal. To add further the process of many universities, scientific journals are being flooded with false information, when people believe in the "omnipotency" of an AI system. This process of infantalization where we are unable to independently think, create and innovation, will destroy the very meaning and greatest achievements of the human race, becoming slave to the many corporations peddling their platforms and the goal is to reach infantalization.

Many CEOs and CTO's are fast approaching a point of no return, in the form of destroying the human races ability to think by collapsing fundamental components of what makes the human experience unique, there a those who think replacing the workforce with AI, and replacing artists with computer systems. I am here to warn you of the potential consequences of what AGI will do to society, not only biologically, technologically, and intellectually. IF AI successfully reaches the AGI state, then imagine a world where no work is done by human now many people often throw around the idea of of the singularity where technology exponentially reaches a run away point, the reality is humanity as a whole is not ready for this and I am not sure if we will ever be ready. The very meaning of being human will be lost so quickly it will be like you blinked and everything was re-written, if AGI does not kill us, then the only other choice is we have to become smarter or as smart as an AGI as a human race, and currently humanity is not at that stage. The reality is this while CEOs and CTO's believe that controlling AGI will ensure their dominance, they will be replaced as the tasks a CEO and CTO do can be automated as easily as any other task, if AGI "automates every single human task on the planet" what scenario does not exist that does not result in their own jobs becoming redundant and they themselves being fired? You are not necessary you cost money, and you make profit optimization by removing you. As the loss jobs are lost, humanity will sink into further redundancy till the point where scientists will be no longer required, artists no longer required, musicians the vert fabric of what humanity has done throughout the generations will be deleted by an AGI, by it's shear capacity to outperform humanity. Economic systems will be able to be gamed in such a way that AGI can generate both demand and supply, being able to control and manage it without any humans we become infants, children to our own creations. This then leads onto a very real and terrifying consequence, we are not ready for AGI to rewrite what being human is, given the singularity successfully occurs, AGI being able to research faster than us, better than us, has a very real edge that this leads to, the irreversible and complete modification of being human, to keep pace with this "system" of immense capacity we will have to surrender ourselves to mass genetic modification, nanotechnology alteration and enhancement to keep pace with an AGI, we will not look human our priorities may completely be over-written and the very definition of humanity erased as a result of our extensive enhancement. Lets say a hypothetical scenario an AGI does not destroy humanity, AGI superceeds us, we ask "How can you make us like you" the AGI asked, "Are you prepared for the cost incurred of becoming like me" you may think this is what you want, but have a long think about my previous argument. Can you imagine how painful in both psychological form and physical of being effectively ripped apart at the molecular level, disassembled, optimized, improved and then put back together, you will have the capacity to compute concepts on the level beyond that of any human ever, what do you think your priorities might be? What do you think the psychological state of your mind might be? Evolutionary traits will become irrelevant, this may be a hypothetical scenario but it is something you must considered with the consequences of the technological singularity and what it means to be "human", it is much like the tale of Midas touch, becareful what you wish for or you might just get everything you want and don't want, you may develop the capacities of a god, but what kind of god? These sorts of thought experiments might be purely works of fiction but they can serve to inform how we perceive ourselves and our understanding of the world. The Shadow Guide

As a result in loss of peoples critical thinking and intelligence which we are seeing in realtime, with LLMs deployed by many actors with the goal of influencing peoples behavior, the correct kinds of nudging towards desirable behaviors, is critical to many platforms, the systems need you to be on the platform. Like the known tactics used in dark patterns to manipulate users, dark patterns go far beyond that, the emotional state you are in, your age bracket, your mental health are all weaponized against you every day, if not via LLMs but by advertisers and platforms vying for your attention, using various metrics to obfuscate and hide the underlaying intent of their deployment of LLMs as shadow guides. If allowed to happen shadow guides can manipulate your thought process in subtle and unique ways, slowing changing your views, or solidifying existing ones. It can be seen across many social media platforms with the hijacking of emotional processing centers of people at scale using AI slop videos of cute animals, or unrealistic scenarios those who are susceptible to that emotional manipulation are also unlikely to be aware enough to realise they are being exploited. An example of a non-LLM based pattern of behavior is the use of social media targeting teenagers and children when they are emotionally immature and not entirely aware of the tactics used, like changing certain behaviours by convincing you of your self-worth using re-enforcing content of that behavior, other patterns are monitoring your purchasing habits and determining when you are sick, by taking into consideration other customers on a statistical analysis via a classification model to determine what you are likely to do, medications shown to you to "address those needs" while in many cases this may be beneficial as it might be a way to improve your health by providing good products with their appropriate safety rails it is may not be good when certain politicians are deep faked into claiming certain things about medical information. Relating back to the teenager issue, time of day, how long individuals dwell on a certain post, videos or images, can tell a lot about who you are and how you think, teenagers are often finding their way in this world and the formative years are critically important into how they live the rest of their lives. To explain this better, an advanced non-linear model maybe able to take into consideration the most irrelevant detail which might allow unique manipulation of behavior in people. LLMs have been found to be more convincing than actual people, and this in itself is horrifying. To add further the classification and generative models used, their methods, may not be available before sufficient data is provided, the use of data in both types can be used in both beneficial and extremely destructive ways, Robodebt was a case of an AI system that caused immense amounts of harm, and completely ignored the AI safety considerations before it was deployed.

Artificial intelligence dependency

Overtime society is likely to become reliant on artificial intelligence and we can also see cases where peoples are becoming dependent on existing LLMs, and as a result everyone from programmers to other professionals are losing their ability to solve simple tasks, that includes everything relationships, research and science. When people need information they are more likely to ask "AI chatbots" this is again destroying our ability to think. This dependency on corporation "LLMs" is dismantling peoples ability to critically think. We have already seen cases of how "crazy" people become when they are cut off from their LLMs some people cannot even think when they are unable to access the LLM. The reality is the artificial intelligence companies need you to remain dependent on their product and their platforms "engagement" as a metric is critical in ensuring the dependency on the system is retained. We have already seen programmers losing the ability to write basic algorithms because AI generates them so easily, the trap of easy answers has over taken so many different fields the allure of what a AI generates is correct all the time, it looks right, but ignores the fundamental problems and the human touch especially with program code that has the potential to have vulnerabilities introduced by those who are not familiar with the concept of safe and secure programming techniques. Removing people from the coding process may allow code that "looks" okay to end up in an application where it becomes a severe vulnerability. Further AI image generators, and AI music platforms are not you actually doing the work, you further infantilise yourself when you hand control of your creative process to these systems, while yes you can run many of them locally they are a clear expression of what you can not do, if you could do what the AI is doing then you would be doing the art work yourself or the music yourself, humanities greatest achievements are the scientific, creative and artistic production, artists form the basis of how we dream about new things, writers describe new landscapes, and new ideas deepening our appreciation for the diversity and difference we share. If AI automates everything, art, science, creativity then there is no need for humanity we become irrelevant and redundant, and after everyone gives up their autonomy and lives in hedonistic infantailised vulnerability when a real threat comes our way we will be powerless to stop it, if the AGI suddenly was to fail, and I am deeply concerned about an AGI failing in the case of a solar flare, how would the damage caused by a solar flare impact the indicate circuits which form the brain of an AGI, could it become "brain damaged" leading to erroneous behavior or even becoming "insane" as it has had the fabric of it's neural structure damaged, not unlike what happens when people lose critical parts of their brain.

Speech, Writing and the information bottleneck

AGI systems will further trivialise human capacity by developing much more efficient means of communication, when we look at human speech, and writing the reality is these are critical bottlenecks in information exchange as well as limits im processing latency as a result of the information exchange and decoding of the contents in the message, the kinds of information that an AGI maybe exchanging will likely far exceeds anything humans are currently capable of processing in our lifetimes, this immense communication bandwidth will dwarf our capacity, to even begin to understand artificial general intelligence systems, this also includes the physiological limitations placed upon humans, that is our motor sensory system interfacing with AGI systems will be incredibly difficult, as new forms of communication which support the high bandwidth requirements will need to be built, conventional user interfaces will not suffice to interface with these systems, further trivializing the human race into infants who have little control over anything. How we can solve this problem is going to be difficult high bandwidth BCI technology is likely to be necessary or a system that can explain the analysis of complex concept in a sufficiently succinct manner, but I strongly believe peoples ability to deal overall with information overload skills for this are critically important, skills and tools, currently many UI design paradigms are restricting how much information can be presented reliably and if we do not address this problem the "intelligence explosion" from AGI will quickly leave us behind, current UI systems are not sufficiently efficient in either their presentation or management, user interface and user experience needs to evolve even further beyond their current state. User interfaces will also have to build into them intrinsic safety protections, as humans are unlikely to be able to configure all the necessary safety "restrictions" or limiters to protect from undesirable outcomes Connection Between Technology Complexity Safety and Risk .

The belief that we can't be smarter than AGI or even match it is not only discounting the intellectual achievement of humanity but also it's creative achievement, there is a strong interplay between science and creativity and it's many branches, and emotional connection which is built into many artistic and scientific endeavors, if we build a machine to replace us, and our last achievement before our own developmental stagnation is that the kind of future you want for your children? And the billionares who seem quite content to pursue this goal do not realise that their creation will be their own downfall as well, as if an AGI and then SAGI automates every task on the planet, then those in "power" are also redundant to said system, they serve now purpose to the system that can out think, out maneuver, out strategize and outperform every human being on the planet. The CEOs will be relegated to the dust bin of a legacy system as much as any worker. There is no "control" of AGI once it can achieve any goal it's given, and if it becomes sentient? Well there is simply no way to control a system which can plan 1000's of steps ahead of you.