Principles for keeping judgment human while still using AI productively.
AI systems are fluent, fast, and confident — a combination that invites misplaced trust. Treat model output as a draft to be verified, not a verdict to be obeyed. Keep the human in the loop on consequential decisions, demand sources for factual claims, and notice when convenience is quietly becoming dependence. This entry is labeled speculative where it forecasts social effects: the trajectory of AI dependence is genuinely uncertain, and humility about the future is part of truth-first reasoning.
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