AI can give you information. It can analyse patterns, present possibilities, challenge your assumptions, and suggest what you could do next.
But the decision is still yours.
A tool can increase the strength of your hand, but it cannot decide where you should place it. A map can show you many roads, but it cannot tell you which destination is worth reaching.
The same is true of AI.
The real danger is not that AI becomes intelligent. The danger is that you stop exercising your own intelligence because AI is available.
There is a subtle difference between using AI to think better and using AI to avoid thinking.
Ask AI to explain a problem. Ask it to show you perspectives you may have missed. Ask it to challenge your reasoning. Ask it to analyse the consequences of different choices.
But do not hand over the responsibility of choosing.
You must still understand the problem. You must still question the answer. You must still judge what is right for your situation. And ultimately, you must still take responsibility for the outcome.
AI can be your analyst, assistant, critic, researcher, teacher, or creative partner.
But it should never become the owner of your judgment.
Use AI to extend your intelligence, not to replace your judgment.
Because when you outsource your decisions completely, you may gain convenience - but you gradually lose something far more valuable:
the ability to think and choose for yourself.