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Side Effects of Artificial Intelligence

By Usama Bajwa

Side Effects of Artificial Intelligence

By Usama Bajwa

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Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a tool-it is becoming an environment. From the moment we wake up and check our phones to the decisions we make about what to read, buy, believe, and remember, AI is quietly shaping the way we think. But what happens when convenience begins to replace cognition? When recommendations replace reasoning? When memory, creativity, and judgment are outsourced to machines?
Side Effects of Artificial Intelligence is a powerful and unsettling exploration of how AI is transforming the human mind. Rather than focusing on jobs, robots, or future speculation, this book examines the hidden cognitive consequences already unfolding: shortened attention spans, algorithmically shaped beliefs, the decline of independent reasoning, and the growing dependence on digital systems for memory, decision-making, and identity. It reveals how AI does not simply assist human thinking-it subtly rewires it.
Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, behavioral patterns, and real-world technological integration, this book exposes how algorithms control attention, how endless feeds reshape dopamine and focus, how external "digital brains" weaken internal knowledge, and how creativity risks becoming standardized through pattern replication. It confronts the illusion of neutral intelligence and reveals the invisible influence behind recommendations, rankings, and automated judgments.
This is not an anti-technology manifesto. It is a call for awareness. AI has the potential to enhance human intelligence-but only if humans remain active thinkers rather than passive users. The greatest risk is not that machines become intelligent, but that humans stop exercising their own intelligence.
For readers interested in Artificial Intelligence, psychology, digital culture, cognitive science, and the future of human autonomy, this book offers a deep, thought-provoking analysis of one of the most urgent intellectual questions of our time: If machines begin to think for us, what will remain uniquely human?
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
110
Release Date:
2026-02-18
Publication Date:
2026-02-18
Publisher:
RK Books Publication
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9699797487
ISBN13:
9789699797484
Weight:
249 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
7 cm
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