A lot of attention is given to what our prompts reveal about us. But I’m increasingly interested in the other direction.
After hundreds or thousands of interactions with an AI system, what does the interaction itself teach us to ask, expect, avoid or repeat?
At what point are we no longer simply expressing our way of thinking through AI – but also adapting our way of thinking to the system we repeatedly interact with?
I’m curious where others notice that boundary in their own use.
Topics: agencyCognitive sovereigntyhuman judgmenthuman-AI interaction
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This is such an important reversal of the usual question, Thorsten. We talk a lot about how our thinking shapes the way we use AI, but much less about how repeated interaction with AI may gradually shape our thinking in return.
What interests me particularly is whether we would even notice that boundary being crossed. If a certain way of asking, structuring or even expecting answers becomes habitual over hundreds of interactions, it may start feeling like our own cognitive pattern rather than something we adapted to.
Perhaps the real question is not only “Is AI shaping us?” but “Would we recognize it when it does?”
Curious to hear how others here experience this in their own AI use 🤔