Hooked On The Machine: AI Addiction

About this episode

The episode explores the risks of AI addiction and its impact on human judgment in various settings.

Send us Fan Mail You wake up, reach for your phone, and ask AI a question you already know the answer to not because you need help, but because it’s easier than thinking. That tiny moment is where we start, because it captures the real risk showing up in offices, job sites, classrooms, and boardrooms: AI dependency that feels like “being productive” while it slowly replaces human judgment. We get precise about what AI addiction actually means by separating healthy AI reliance from AI overdep...

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Host: Jim Kunkle

Topics covered

• AI addiction
• technology dependency
• human judgment
• productivity
• AI reliance

Keywords

• AI
• addiction
• dependency
• productivity
• technology

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