AI can disrupt the balance between trophy-oriented and process-oriented activities.

AI tends to highlight our human inadequacies, affecting our self-esteem.

AI's role in chores changes the way we use our free time but may lead to imbalance and dissatisfaction.

There is no shortage of dire warnings about the dangers of AI. In fact, these days the question is not so much whether AI will kill us all, but about just how it will do so. Climate catastrophe as a result of the energy use of data centers? Or AI superintelligence enslaving us and keeping us the way we now keep factory-grown chicken? I don’t intend to add to these apocalyptic horror scenarios.

Instead, I want to warn about a much less science-fiction-inspired, but more immediate and already salient psychological effect of recent developments in AI technology. It is that our attitude towards our free time has been changing.

It may be tempting to think that this is a good thing. AI does our........

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