Reflections

AI removes friction. Sometimes that is leverage. Sometimes the lost friction was the only thing slowing a person down enough to think.

The most damaging AI error is often not fabrication. It is the silent substitution of a standard the user never chose.

AI can advise, compare, and draft. Someone still has to sign, publish, hire, refuse, wait, or act.

AI’s greatest social advantage is that it can sound like understanding. Its greatest danger is that people often stop there.