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I've Outsourced My Judgement to AI. So Has Everyone Else.
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- May 24, 2026
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Summary
My youngest daughter, who is supremely intelligent, refuses to use AI. She doesn’t want it plagiarising her, she says, and she doesn’t want her mind to get lazy. She’s currently taking her finals at Cambridge, where, she tells me, almost everybody is using it for everything. But she won’t. And good for her. Another friend won’t touch it either, because she is so fiercely protective of her privacy and doesn’t like AI and social media having so much access to our inner lives. But these people are exceptions. Almost everyone I know is now using AI constantly. I am a prime offender. I use it to make trivial decisions. I get it to draft emails and messages that are too sapping to write myself. I’ve used it to draft contracts that would otherwise have cost me thousands in legal fees. I use it to summarise research papers and articles, evaluate investments, plan trips and organise logistics. It’s a great sounding board. It helps me proof read these articles, does the pics and writes all the SEO stuff I can’t pretend to understand. It is my personal trainer, and tells me what exercises to do. Yesterday I got it to analyse my body fat from a photograph. I’ve even had it analyse my stools. Last year (and the year before, and the year before that), I was stuck in a toxic relationship I couldn’t seem to break out of, even after we separated. At one point I thought I was going mad. I eventually uploaded our entire WhatsApp exchanges into AI and asked it to tell me WTF was going on. I discovered I have “fixer bias” she was an “anxious attachment avoidant”, or something like that, and the combination of the two types is highly toxic and addictive. Finally, I understood why I couldn’t break out of the loop, and what I now had to do to move on. My mother uses it non-stop as well, and i…