Until today, the discoveries made by science have largely made human life easier, more efficient, and more comfortable. However, one particular invention—Artificial Intelligence (AI)—could become a serious challenge for humanity. What fundamentally distinguishes human beings from other animals is their capacity to think, reason, question, imagine, and make independent decisions. Human civilization has developed because of these abilities. But AI is now beginning to perform many tasks that were traditionally considered the domain of human intelligence. If machines increasingly take over thinking, reasoning, decision-making, and creative work, an important question arises: What will remain uniquely human? If human beings gradually stop using their own intellectual abilities because machines are doing the thinking for them, human intelligence itself could lose its importance. In the long term, this could create a situation in which humans become increasingly dependent on machines. However...
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