Sam Altman’s underrated AI fear: that we stop thinking for ourselves

The Next Web reports that the man whose company is trying to get the world to use AI for everything has named a risk he thinks almost no one is talking about: that people will let it do so much of their thinking that their own minds go slack. Sam Altman,…

For Australian readers, the useful question is what this changes in everyday work: costs, productivity, privacy, hiring, or the tools businesses rely on. We are watching this story because practical AI adoption is moving quickly, and the impact often reaches workplaces before policy or training catches up.