Artificial Intelligence
For two decades, the internet ran on a quiet bargain. Creators learned how to please search engines, and search engines rewarded them with visibility. Keywords were researched, titles optimized, backlinks cultivated, and articles sculpted to satisfy an algorithm that crawled pages and ranked them like a librarian with rules. That
Artificial Intelligence
For years, artificial intelligence felt impressive but strangely limited. It could answer questions, summarize documents, and generate text that sounded eerily human. Yet, when the moment came to do something—book a flight, analyze a spreadsheet, fix a broken workflow—it stopped short. It talked, but it didn’t act.
Artificial Intelligence
In early 2025, a study published in the journal Societies reignited a debate many had sensed intuitively but struggled to prove: the more people rely on artificial intelligence to think for them, the less they seem to think for themselves. Led by researcher Michael Gerlich, the study did not frame