If the reasoning process becomes opaque even to those who are responsible for its consequences, accountability shifts from something lived to something theoretical.

Leaders may still sign off decisions, yet their capacity to interrogate the underlying thinking diminishes if they have no experiential sense of how that thinking was formed.

If we don’t actively teach people how to question, how to verify, how to tolerate being wrong, and how to think independently of algorithms, we risk creating a society that functions efficiently but thinks very little.

And that’s the quiet fear running through all of these comments. Not that AI will become too intelligent. But that we’ll stop becoming intelligent ourselves.