AI and Existential Surrender | Psychology Today

Dante’s vision of the deepest circle of hell as frozen parallels a key concern regarding AI, highlighting the risk of reduced experiences shaping human beings.
The writer explores cognitive, emotional, and existential surrender in the context of AI, suggesting AI could shift which burdens people are willing to incur in forming their identities.
Cognitive surrender involves transferring human thinking to AI, while emotional surrender refers to choosing AI interactions over challenging human ones.
The writer argues that AI reduces both cognitive and emotional effort, simplifying tasks, which could lead to cumulative effects reducing the resistance that shapes human capacities like patience, judgment, and resilience.
The convenience of AI can lead to stillness and a lack of deep, formative experiences, with the ultimate concern being the gradual reduction of experiences vital to human self-formation.

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