AI Isn’t the Threat... Declining Critical Thinking Is

Recently, I was speaking with a senior executive from a tugboat company, and he told me a story that perfectly sums up where we’re headed.

One of his team members was dating two girls at the same time.

And instead of texting like a normal human, he was putting every message into AI to generate “the perfect response.”

The executive was horrified.

I said, "Brah, that's the new normal!"

When AI went mainstream, I was coaching high school students. Almost all of them bragged about having AI write their essays. Then they’d run those essays through AI detectors so teachers wouldn’t catch them.

Peak efficiency.

Zero original thought.

And adults aren’t far behind.

I know speakers who build entire presentations using AI — and then read them word-for-word to an audience.

It’s painful.

And common.

Meanwhile, conspiracy theories are circulating that AI will “run governments because humans aren’t smart enough.”

Whether you believe those theories or not, the fear comes from something real:

If you outsource your thinking long enough, something else will think for you.

AI Isn’t Dangerous. Complacency Is.

Here’s what I see daily:

– Students are losing critical thinking

– Adults sounding robotic

– Professionals speaking in an AI tone instead of a human tone

– Social media collapsing under sameness

The problem isn’t AI.

It’s that people are handing over the one thing that makes them irreplaceable: their minds.

I love AI. But let’s be clear: AI is my employee, not my boss, not my therapist, not my personality, not my business coach, and definitely not my thought engine.

One of my mentors calls my setup “glue-eating AI.”

While tech geniuses build super-brains, I’m over here saying, “Cool. I’ll keep my charisma.”

Besides, I like berating my employees!!!

Humans Still Have the One Thing AI Can’t Fake

A client recently wrote to say how much they loved my presentation and the thoughtful follow-up emails.

That was all me, baby!

I’m about to deliver a workshop in Halifax — and I'll be there too.

This blog? Still me (and my friend Grammarly).

I may not out-calculate AI, but I have something it can never replicate: presence, critical thinking, human nuance.

These are your competitive edges.

And they’re disappearing fast.

If You Want Real Confidence, Don’t Outsource Your Brain

If you want to:

– speak clearly under pressure

– feel confident instead of anxious

– stop freezing or rambling

– sharpen your thinking

– communicate like a leader

…then you can’t hand your voice to AI and expect to stay magnetic.

Your mind is a muscle.

Most people aren’t using it.

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