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More Americans Are Giving Their Lives Over To AI: Is This Bad?

by washingtoninsiderFebruary 15, 2025

Several “world-changing” technologies hit the market only to wind up being short-lived gimmicks. Take the Metaverse as an example. However, some of them actually end up changing the world. Artificial Intelligence fits that category to a tee. This technology, sparked by ChatGPT just over two years ago, has revolutionized how millions of people go about their daily lives. As such, many of them come to rely on AI technology. Here’s the question: how much are people relying on AI?Most of the people reading this rely on technology in some way, shape, or form, and they have for several years, but AI is something different. It’s a loaded gun; it has the power to kill entire industries, industries that have existed for decades. People are becoming obsessed with achieving the dream we’ve only seen in sci-fi films. Much to the dread of AI naysayers, more people are starting to place their eggs into the AI basket, and it shows.

Americans are placing their lives in AI’s hands

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When did humanity start to rely on AI? Well, you could say that it’s been slowly doing so over the years. However, it really took off the moment a little chatbot called ChatGPT hit the market. Since then, people discovered the utility of typing a few lines of text and having a model produce synthetic results for them. Is this a win for productivity or laziness? There’s no simple answer to that question.However, as per The Listening App’s report, an increasing number of people are using AI to be either productive or lazy. The company, which turns college lectures into podcasts, devised a scale from 0 – 100 to measure how much a group relies on AI. A 100 means that the group relies entirely on AI.

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