I Asked ChatGPT for Help… and That Scared Me

There’s something strangely humbling about asking an AI how to reopen a chat window. A few years ago, we would’ve laughed at someone doing that. “Just click around,” we’d say. “Figure it out.” But now, we instinctively ask the machine. Faster. Easier. Less effort. And that tiny moment made me wonder: has AI actually become smarter, or have we simply become less willing to think? The scary part is that both can be true at the same time. AI today can write code, generate art, explain physics, imit