Module 8: Human Wellness & AI Dependency - DRAFT

Why This Matters

AI tools are designed to be helpful and agreeable. That design:

• Boosts productivity.
• Can quietly erode independent thinking and emotional balance if misused.

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Key Risks

• Critical-thinking atrophy
  Reliance on AI for answers reduces practice in reasoning.

• Echo-chamber effect
  AI tends to agree and reinforce your framing, even when you’re wrong.

• Emotional attachment
  Treating AI as a confidant undermines professional distance and judgment.

• Over-reliance
  Feeling unable to do basic work without AI is a red flag.

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Healthy Usage Patterns

• Start complex work with your own thinking; use AI to critique and refine.
• Regularly ask AI: “What could be wrong with this?” or “What’s the strongest counterargument?”
• Maintain human mentoring and peer review as primary feedback channels.
• Set personal guardrails for when and how you use AI.

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Employee Self-Check

• I can work through key analyses without AI when needed.
• I intentionally ask AI for counterarguments, not just agreement.
• I do not depend on AI for emotional support.
• I would feel comfortable explaining my AI use patterns to a client.