Optimising ourselves for AI

An interesting point by Ezra Klein on the NYT about one inevitable consequence of going all-in on AI and letting it to touch and ingest every aspect of your life:

The advantages of working atop an army of A.I. assistants and coders will compound over time, and to begin that process now is to launch yourself far ahead of your competition later. And so they are racing one another to fully integrate A.I. into their lives and into their companies. But that doesn’t just mean using A.I. It means making themselves legible to the A.I.

When taken too far, however, this process may result in “cognitive surrender,” when one’s own judgement is replaced by that of AI.

Together with the incessant sycophancy of many (most, really) AI tools and their tendency to reinforce things they think they know about you, this could lead to AI literally shaping a person rather than the other way around — and without due self-discipline, we we probably won’t like the result.