AI's intelligence is built on human interaction — and automation threatens to destroy its own foundation

Summary

The article challenges the dominant narrative of AI-driven efficiency, arguing that AI systems don't truly "think" but rather remember patterns from accumulated human interaction and collective intelligence. As organizations rush to automate work and replace human roles with AI, they risk cutting off the very source of meaningful data that makes AI useful in the first place. The author contends that the push for human redundancy undermines the social foundation of intelligence itself.