574: How AI and Technology Are Making Us Dumber
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Are you starting to wonder about how much AI and technology is helping us or harming us? Most of us have smartphones in our pockets and rely on digital tools for almost everything. But beyond that, are we replacing a higher intelligence or even our relationship with God with artificial intelligence? It’s a big topic, so let’s talk about it.
In today’s episode, I’m diving deep into a question that’s been on my mind lately: How are AI and technology fundamentally changing us? I’m not trying to ring alarm bells about the potential harms of technology. I want to help you build a healthier relationship with it—one that enhances your life instead of diminishing your mental and spiritual well-being.
We’ll explore how our increasing reliance on digital tools might weaken our cognitive abilities—our memory, critical thinking, and creativity. More importantly, I’ll share insights into how technology might shape our spirituality, subtly replacing our reliance on intuition, prayer, and deep reflection with quick, convenient answers from artificial intelligence.
P.S. I’m also encouraging everyone to take the 30-Day "Less Tech, More God" Challenge. This is a simple but powerful way to reclaim your focus, reconnect with yourself, and realign with what truly matters.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Why reliance on technology may be accelerating cognitive decline (aka "digital dementia")
- How AI, digital calendars, and search engines weaken our memory and problem-solving abilities
- The unexpected ways AI may be replacing our intuition and connection to God
- Five practical steps to develop a healthier relationship with technology
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.6 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals |
| 0:21.9 | themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what |
| 0:26.4 | you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of the Achieve Your Goals podcast. I'm your host, Hal Elrod. And today we are diving into a topic that's been on my mind a lot lately because it's something I'm personally struggling with. And I have a feeling that you might be too. However, like me, you might not be aware that you're struggling with it or that there are any potential unintended consequences that you may want to mitigate now. |
| 0:59.1 | You may want to be aware of and think through. |
| 1:01.9 | Here's what I mean. |
| 1:02.8 | The question that we're asking today is, how is AI and technology fundamentally changing us? |
| 1:09.7 | What is it doing to our brain, to our cognitive function? |
| 1:14.2 | And is there an unintended spiritual consequence? And that might be more collectively, |
| 1:20.1 | but it's going to happen on the individual level first. And of course, it amplifies, |
| 1:24.7 | it scales as more and more people adopt these new technologies. |
| 1:28.6 | But some of what I realize is maybe the old technologies, like using my digital calendar, |
| 1:33.3 | which I've been using for probably a decade, how's that affecting me? |
| 1:36.5 | So I've been going really deep into these topics, |
| 1:38.8 | and we're going to look at this question of how AI and technology is fundamentally changing us |
| 1:43.7 | from two different perspectives. |
| 1:46.0 | Number one, is it making us dumber? Are we unknowingly allowing it to take over our natural |
| 1:52.8 | God-given mental abilities such as our memory, our critical thinking, our problem-solving, |
| 2:00.6 | our creativity? If you can just ask AI and you |
| 2:04.2 | get an answer or even just Google an answer, well, you don't have to think anymore. You don't have |
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