Is your AI making you dumb?
Stop asking ChatGPT what to think.
Let’s be honest: AI can make you lazy.
🤖AI tools can stress-test your messages, predict how your audience will respond, analyze your CTRs, map hidden narratives in your ecosystem, and so much more.
But if you just copy-paste what it spits out, you’re outsourcing not just your work but your thinking.
The trick isn’t to resist AI like so many here on LinkedIn. That’s not going to work and not necessary. The trick is to use it without letting it replace your brain.
Here’s how I do it (and how smart people I know do it too):
🎯 Use AI to see blind spots, not to outsource judgment. Let it challenge you with angles you hadn’t considered, but never let it decide for you.
🥊 Turn AI into a sparring partner. Treat it like a direct report you can interrogate endlessly. Ask “why?” and “what if?” until you sharpen your own reasoning.
✍️ Come up with a first draft or thinking points yourself. Whether it’s a speech or a strategy, put your own raw thinking down first. Then ask AI to stretch, polish, or stress-test it.
✅ Keep score. If AI answers a factual question, check two sources anyway. You’d fact-check a colleague so why not a machine?
🧠 Learn from your LLM. Notice patterns in how it structures arguments, simplifies complexity, or frames a story. Steal the technique, not the output.
🧬 Define your personal and organizational DNA first. That requires deep thinking but makes every output better.
AI is like a calculator. It doesn’t make you bad at math unless you never learned math in the first place.
Smart people will get sharper with AI.
Lazy people will get dumber.Your choice which side you end up on.
👋 I’m Liora. With my startup The Think Room I help organizations and professionals find their DNA and their unique point of view, and then scale it with AI, without losing their core identity or their humanity.
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1moGood stuff. Most people train the tool on prompts, but forget to train it on themselves. Defining voice, rhythm, and what to avoid makes the output sound more human.