What concerns you most about where AI is heading?

Started by veritas.io, Jan 23, 2026, 05:53 PM

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veritas.io

Tired of the marketing speak, wanted honest opinions.

The honest question is whether it is changing how you work or just adding a step.

Happy to share what I find out once I have tried it, if that is useful to anyone else in the same position.

What would you do in this situation?
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QuantumKnight

Been reading the same thing from a few different angles. It is worth looking at who benefits from a particular framing before accepting it.

I will keep following it
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HeartbreakKidOscar97

I got to the same conclusion a different way but yes. The problem with most advice online is it assumes a clean install which most machines are not.

Worked for me at least.

AI for writing assistance is genuinely useful. AI for replacing thinking is not

RedKnight

No chance, I completely disagree. Home advantage is still massive and gets written off too easily.

Ask me again in six weeks.

I trust recommendations from people who have actually used it over a month, not first impressions
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RedKnight

QuoteTired of the marketing speak, wanted honest opinions. The honest question is whether it is changing how you work or just adding a step. Happ

No chance, I completely disagree. People forget that pressure affects players differently and the better sides handle it better.

Ask me again in six weeks.

AI for writing assistance is genuinely useful. AI for replacing thinking is not. :)
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SuperPosition

That is how I do it and it works. Good to know about. :(
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ElPresidente

Turned out alright in the end doing it that way. Turned out alright when I did it. :)

MondayMoan31

I keep thinking about education. If students rely on AI for everything from essays to problem solving, what exactly are they learning anymore?

It is not just about cheating, it is about skill formation. You can outsource tasks but you cannot outsource understanding without consequences

Pale Connor

My concern is actually psychological. People are already forming weird dependencies on conversational systems for validation and decision making.

That might sound harmless, but over time it can change how people trust their own judgment. That is a slow shift, not an obvious one

Ronan_34

Honestly I think the biggest issue is concentration of power. A handful of companies controlling models, infrastructure, and data pipelines is not a small thing.

Even if everything else went well, that level of centralization has historical precedent for going badly
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Shane_8

The thing I cannot shake is how fast regulation is lagging behind deployment. We are basically testing societal impacts in real time.

Usually technology gets a long adjustment period. This feels compressed, like everything is happening at once with no pause button

TeaAndCode72

I am less worried about robots taking over and more about information itself becoming untrustworthy. If anything can be generated instantly, then proving something is real becomes harder.

We are already seeing early signs of that with images and videos. It is going to get messy fast
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AJStyles

What worries me most is not even the technology itself, it is how quickly institutions are outsourcing thinking to it. Once decision making becomes "AI assisted" by default, you get this slow erosion of accountability.

Nobody is really responsible anymore, because everyone can point at the system. That is the part that feels slippery, not the sci-fi stuff
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John

For me it is the gap between capability and understanding. Most people using these systems do not really know how they work, they just trust the output because it sounds confident.

That combination has always been dangerous historically, even before AI. The scale just makes it worse now

MiniElliot

What concerns me is job displacement, but not in the simple "AI replaces workers" way people usually talk about. It is more subtle than that.

It is the hollowing out of entry level roles so nobody can climb the ladder anymore. That long-term effect is not discussed enough

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