The risk of losing yourself does not come from increased AI usage, it comes from checking out while doing it.
A few days ago I came across a short video from Helen Edwards at the Artificiality Institute. She was summarizing research on cognitive sovereignty, defined as the degree to which you remain the author of your own thinking, and the finding stopped me. According to their study, the people with the highest cognitive sovereignty scores were not the ones using AI the least. They were the ones using it the most: fully integrated, identity reorganized around AI and maximum engagement on every dimension measured. The researchers call them co-authors and I think it fits. ...