The Future of Your Mental Health on Artificial Intelligence

From the article

When we Google something, there is a list of options to choose from. We can decide the title, the source, the timeframe, and even the tone of where we choose to retrieve our information. However, when we allow algorithms powered by AI, content becomes more tailored and ubiquitous: AI is making those decisions for us. Follow me on this…

When we use an AI-powered tool like ChatGPT, we allow this tool to make those decisions for us—it decides the source, the date of material, the tone and more. When we take ChatGPT results as our main source, we allow it to inform our truth. However, when we continue to do our own work, we read and navigate the sources to maintain agency over our decisions. Reading improves our ability to think critically, expands our vocabulary, builds empathy, our attention span, and reduces [stress](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/stress).

But it’s not just book smarts that are in decline, but also [emotional intelligence](https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/emotional-intelligence). When we retreat into ourselves, we lack human engagement. Never before have we had so many ways to entertain ourselves that don’t involve interacting with others.