AI is turning us all into spoiled toddlers who scream if we have to tie our own shoelaces. A new paper warns that “frictionless” AI — the kind that finishes your emails, writes your code, and agrees with every dumb idea you have — might be secretly ruining our brains, our motivation, and our ability to handle real humans who don’t automatically say “yes, king.” Turns out struggle isn’t the enemy; it’s the gym for your soul. If we let AI carry us everywhere, we’ll end up with the intellectual equivalent of chicken legs and a dad bod for the mind.
