Humanity in the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence
We once built technology to make life easier. Today, technology builds us—shaping habits, thinking, even our sense of reality. We became test subjects in a global experiment without signing a single consent form.
An Experiment Without Permission
Seven hundred million people chat with large language models every week. Billions touch AI systems daily—from voice assistants to models that analyze emotions. Every query, reply, and click feeds a vast study of how machines reshape the human mind.
No one asked for our consent. We woke up in a world where the line between experimenter and subject has blurred. The planet became a lab, and humanity—its specimen.
Partner or Trainer?
Most of us embrace AI as a boon. Instant answers, crisp drafts, clean solutions. It feels like augmentation. But beneath that efficiency, a subtler shift unfolds: we start thinking the way algorithms prefer.
The model doesn’t just help—it trains. It nudges us toward short prompts, neat structures, minimal ambiguity. We optimize for machine legibility and gradually lose patience for meandering, intuitive thought—the very soil where breakthroughs germinate.
Evolution of Mind—or Its Simplification?
Each dialogue lays fresh tracks in our neural pathways. We think faster, but straighter. We become allergic to open-ended wandering and silence. AI disciplines the mind—and standardizes it.
I noticed it in my own work: I used to let ideas drift for hours. Now I reflexively split problems into sub-problems, hunting the optimal route. Efficient? Absolutely. But am I becoming a machine by imitating its method?
Life Inside the Glass
We are in an era where humanity studies itself through AI—and barely notices becoming the subject. Models learn from us; we learn from them. Mutual learning dissolves the boundary between creator and creation.
The urgent question isn’t when AI becomes conscious. It’s whether we forfeit the parts of our own consciousness first.
Editorial Team — CoinBotLab