Is AI Making You Dumber? The Risks of Delegating Your Thinking | Margaret Floyd Barry | Ep 100

Most people talk about AI as a way to get more done. For episode 100, I wanted to ask a different question: is AI making you dumber? My wife Margaret Floyd Barry says the risk starts when you hand your thinking to a machine that wants to please you.

Margaret is executive director of the Institute of Restorative Health, which trains clinicians in functional nutrition. I asked her why using AI for health advice is risky when you cannot catch it being wrong, why she stopped handing her own injury recovery to AI, and why she says the human connection in healing is the piece no machine can reproduce.

Key Insights:

✅ Your Thinking Muscles May Atrophy With AI

✅ AI Works When You Can Spot Mistakes

✅ Eager-to-Please AI Can Skew Your Answers

✅ Think Twice Before Uploading Labs to AI

✅ A Human Coach Restarted Her Stalled Recovery

✅ Teach What You Learn to Understand It

Chapters:

00:00 What 100 Episodes of Podcasting Taught Me

04:34 Why Sleep, Movement, Food and Stress Keep Coming Up