Dr. David Orman

Artificial intelligence is quietly dismantling the foundations of human creativity. What once required imagination, effort and soul is now replaced with instant answers and machine-generated ideas. When people stop wrestling with their own thoughts, they stop discovering who they are. Creativity withers when there is no struggle. Originality dies when everything is copied, predicted or synthesized for you. The human spirit grows through the act of creation, and AI steals that growth by offering shortcuts that cost far more than they save.

As reliance grows, motivation collapses. Why push yourself when the machine can do it faster. Why learn, refine or master anything when the illusion of mastery can be produced in seconds. This dependency becomes a trap that feels convenient but slowly erodes the ability to think independently. The mind becomes passive. Curiosity fades. The reward centers of the brain weaken because achievement no longer requires effort. AI becomes not a tool, but a crutch, and eventually a cage.

AI becomes not a tool, but a crutch, and eventually a cage.

A glaring example of this trend unfolding in real time is the rise of Suno, a generative AI music company whose CEO is Mikey Shulman. Suno claims to democratize music creation by letting users generate full songs from simple text prompts. As Shulman recently put it: “There is a really big future for music where way more people are doing it in a really active way, and where it has a much more valuable place in society.” That statement reflects Suno’s misguided ambition. What Suno offers is not genuine music creation but imitation. By producing songs through algorithmic recombination of existing patterns, Suno risks stealing from real creators, diluting originality, and flooding the landscape with hollow, soulless content.

The deeper danger is the long-term cognitive and cultural decline that follows widespread reliance on tools like Suno. When the brain stops practicing critical thinking, memory formation and original problem solving, those abilities atrophy. Intelligence lowers through disuse. You cannot become sharper by outsourcing your mind. You cannot produce meaningful art by letting a machine do everything for you. The real threat is not that AI might surpass human intelligence. The real threat is that humans are letting their own intelligence and creative spirit decay by surrendering the practices that made them intelligent and alive in the first place.