When Artificial Intelligence Starts Thinking for Us: The Dangers of AI 

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. In your house. In your car. In your phone. And now, thanks to Gmail’s new AI initiative, it’s in your email, too. 

Google’s Gemini was introduced just a few short years ago. This month, AI features like AI Overview and Help Me Write were released to Gmail users, promising a new and streamlined way to read and write emails. 

The AI Overview feature summarizes an email for you, so reading through an email yourself becomes obsolete. Help Me Write does exactly what it says. It writes your emails for you. No human intervention necessary. 

The overexposure to AI and the constant barrage of it in all aspects of our technology begs the question: at what point do we stop thinking for ourselves? 

If we’re not capable of drafting our own emails or sifting through our inbox, what exactly are we capable of? Dependence on AI is something that just a few years ago sounded far-off and dystopian. But with interfaces like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, we use less and less of our own intelligence and more of technology’s. 

Instead of books and board games, kids find themselves poring over iPads and social media. Here, they learn to embrace AI, to let it think for them. They have ChatGPT write up their essays and solve their homework problems. They ask it to create new images and alter videos. They confide in it like it’s a therapist or a friend. 

AI can’t replace humans. It may help us with our emails or with our homework, but it can never replace human intention or creation. It’s more important now than ever to understand the dangers AI poses, and to stop it in its tracks before it takes over our lives entirely.