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As we elevate AI capabilities, we're learning to think less of our fellow humans, warns Atlantic essay

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David Brooks, writing in The Atlantic, has published at least two relevant pieces bearing on the tension between AI capability and human dignity. His June 2026 essay "The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age" argued that success in the AI era depends not on raw intelligence but on one's willingness to wrestle with difficult problems rather than outsource thinking to machines.

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