I remember the line printed on every cigarette packet: “Cigarette smoking is injurious to health.” Did that warning stop people from smoking?

No.

Irony is – ChatGPT also says : ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info. Yet its being used extensively.

Not because AI will stop being useful, but because it may become too deeply involved in the choices we make every day.

We may not always want AI to tell us what to eat to remain healthy. We may not want an algorithm to decide which place we should visit, what we should read or what we should watch.

We may become uncomfortable with AI telling us what we should write, how we should express ourselves or even how we should communicate our thoughts.

The bigger concern may be something else.

Will constant AI assistance slowly distract us from our own vision, our own habits, our own likes and dislikes, our own preferences — and most importantly, our ability to listen to our own heart?

As a Communication Economist, I see this not simply as a technology question, but as a question of human choice and value.

Technology creates convenience. But convenience can also reduce the space in which we think, discover, experiment, make mistakes and form our own opinions.

Perhaps the future will not be about asking, “How much can AI do for us?”

It may be about asking: “How much of ourselves are we willing to hand over to AI?”

And perhaps, one day, choosing to do something ourselves may become the ultimate expression of being human.