Artificial Intelligence- A Tool or a Crutch
The Age of AI, The Age of Choice: A Tool or a Crutch Thousands of years ago, when human beings first learned to control fire, they did more than illuminate darkness. They altered the rhythm of life itself. Fire extended the day. The wheel expanded distance. The printing press multiplied knowledge. Electricity reshaped civilisation. The internet collapsed geography. Every great tool in history arrived with excitement, fear, resistance—and eventually, acceptance. As Ayn Rand reflected in Atlas Shrugged , “The first man who discovered fire did not do so by rubbing two sticks together. He saw fire in nature and learned to control it.” Human progress has never been about invention alone. It has always been about how consciously and responsibly we choose to use what we discover. Artificial Intelligence now joins this long lineage of transformative tools . Yet it feels fundamentally different. For the first time in history, our tools are not merely ex...