Almost everyone is happening to us, with an undesirable frequency, to feel an uncomfortable suspicion: that we are not good enough, because we can not follow the machines.
Something curious has happened in the last two years at the workplace.
People who previously proud of being fast, intelligent and spirits – which, in scientific terms, would label like “intelligence” – Now question silently if they will be slowmonotonous or too analog to deal with daily work challenges.
It is not that they have suddenly worsened in their functions; What happens is that your new synthetic colleague Never sleep, never look at the screen without doing anything and can produce a polished response to almost everything in about eight seconds.
A generative AI It became that excessively enthusiastic trainee, which produces memorandos, presentations and even jokes with a disconcerting speed. And instead of just enjoying the free work that the new “intern” offers us, many of us We feel inferior.
Welcome to AI Importor Syndrome: The insidious suspicion that you are not good enough because you cannot follow a machine, explains the teacher of Business Psychology Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicCio do ManpowerGroup, in an article na.
Rather, impostor syndrome compared to us with other humans who, irrationally, were considered superior; Now, the daily reference is the Generative AI, which We use, admire and that makes us feel useless.
What is AI impostor syndrome?
The original consisted of doubting his own talent before other humans. The new AI impostor syndrome is its First modern: This time, it is not being compared with colleagues, but with a machine dedicated to learning, fuel and unlimited dedication.
Manifests itself in small, but unsettling details: Feeling guilty for taking more than a minute to write an email, embarrassment when ChatgPT finds a reference we couldn’t remember; or the constant concern that if it was necessary to present a strategy without digital assistance, We would be exposed as incompetent.
AI impostor syndrome is thus the feeling that we are failing in everything, Just because we are human. Is it suffering from this condition? Check the list of questions below for knowledge.
- HEARS TO SEND A FIRST DRAWING FOR THINKING “AI could make you better”?
- Already caught the research “better prompts For chatgpt ”as if they were secret intelligence codes?
- Feel to blame for taking more than 30 seconds to respond to a message?
- Did you hide that an idea was yours (not the machine) for assuming that people would be disappointed?
- Does the text review now seem useless because the machine “would not make this error”?
- Do you introduce errors or projects on purpose to simulate it is not the writing? (yes, we write on purpose…)
- Are you jealous or afraid of losing opportunities when colleagues boils for using AI quickly?
- Beginned to apologize for the time your brain takes time to process information?
If you answered “yes” to most of these questions, you may be feeling the AI impact syndrome.
How to overcome
Like its human version, AI impossor syndrome prosperous in environments where it is privileged speed, reliability, predictability and quantity of production over quality. The machine dazzles precisely because it stands out in these parameters.
But Intelligence is not just speed: It also involves judgment, originality and the process of linking ideas in ways that do not always make sense at first sight.
Fortunately, there are three ways to deal with this.
In the first place, redefines its concept of “value”. Instead of asking, “Can I do this as quickly as Ia?” Ask “what can I do that I can’t?” Context, taste and empathy remain exclusively human domains.
Fundamentally, ensure that what it does or optimizes has value. As Peter Drucker said: “There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently what should not be done”.
Secondly, exercise your cognitive aptitude. Like exercise, thinking involves muscle, says Tomas Chamorro-Pramuzic.
If you never face more demanding challenges than text suggestions, your mental ability will atrophies. Deliberately addresses problems without resorting to digital shortcuts to keep the mind active.
Third, Treat AI as a partner, not as rival. Good athletes do not despise training equipment; use it to challenge themselves. If IA raises the level of what is possible, take the opportunity instead of retracting.
In defense of natural stupidity
The uncomfortable secret of progress is that rarely learns by hitting. How Amy Edmondsonin your “The right type of wrong: the science of failing well” You learn by making mistakes: in a painful, public and repeated way.
Natural stupidity is the fertile soil of perception. AI can eliminate mistakes, but in doing so, risks deprive us of the failures that shape the judgment.
There are advantages in facing complex challenges, fighting a blank page or expressing an incomplete idea at a meeting. These experiences are not efficient, but they are formative. Are the drafts of wisdom.
Think about it as a Pilates cognitive: The goal is not to arrive faster, but keep the brain flexible, resilient and less prone to blockages. Writing a rehearsal without AI may not always result in a publishable text, but keeps the agile mind in ways the autocomplete will never get.
