The article discusses the increasing pressure on AI (AI) to adopt it, claiming that it is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking. The article suggests that AI is making humans more exhausted, anxious, and less capable of thinking clearly. The pressure to adopt AI is so pervasive that it has developed a vocabulary of coercion, with suggestions that AI should deliver tangible benefits to people's lives. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI risked losing its “social permission” to consume vast quantities of energy unless it started delivering tangible benefits. However, a survey of US consumers found that 35% did not want AI on their devices at all and did not need it. Goldman Sachs found that there was no meaningful relationship between productivity and AI adoption at an economy-wide level. The five largest US technology companies are expected to spend $667 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, a 62% increase over the previous year. The National Bureau of Economic Research also highlighted a “productivity paradox”: perceived gains larger than measured ones, while Goldman found a median gain of around 30% in two specific areas: customer support and software development.