{"id":1066,"date":"2026-03-16T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2026-03-29T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:23:29","slug":"what-happens-when-we-outsource-our-brains-to-agi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When We Outsource Our Brains to AGI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You don\u2019t remember phone numbers anymore. I don\u2019t either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have, as a species, collectively agreed to outsource that small sliver of our memory to a silicon slab in our pocket. This isn\u2019t a complaint; it\u2019s a convenience. But it\u2019s also a symptom of a much larger process, one we\u2019re barely noticing. We are in the early, deceptively pleasant stages of cognitive offloading<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We offload our sense of direction to the GPS, our factual recall to Google, and, increasingly, our analytical reasoning to generative AI. We are trading cognitive friction for cognitive ease<\/em>, and it feels good. But this frictionless convenience is, I believe, the single most dangerous, insidious threat of the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are all worried about the wrong AGI. We\u2019re obsessed with a malicious \u201cTerminator\u201d AGI that will take<\/em> power from us. We are completely ignoring the far more likely, benevolent AGI that will take responsibility<\/em> from us. An AGI that we will willingly<\/em> give our agency to, one frictionless decision at a time, until we have none left to give. This is the path to the Cognitive Conservatorship<\/em>. And the scariest part? We\u2019re already on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You don\u2019t remember phone numbers anymore. I don\u2019t either. We have, as a species, collectively agreed to outsource that small sliver of our memory to a silicon slab in our pocket. This isn\u2019t a complaint; it\u2019s a convenience. But it\u2019s also a symptom of a much larger process, one we\u2019re barely noticing. We are in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45,6],"tags":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ai","7":"category-embedded","8":"category-title-post","9":"tag-embedded-ai","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}