Aishwarya’s essay, The Fragility of Borrowed Intelligence, is featured in our inaugural Collection—Life in the Scroll Age.

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Aishwarya Khanduja, Founder of Analogue Group, joins Content Director Nimayi Dixit to discuss her work and the ideas featured in her essay, The Fragility of Borrowed Intelligence.

Aishwarya's essay highlights two broad, social fragilities that she feels will be amplified as we rely more and more on the capabilities of LLMs—economic fragility and epistemic fragility.

Economic fragility is the hollowing out of our collective knowledge of how our systems and infrastructure works.

Epistemic fragility is the weakening of our capacity to handle the tension of doubt and confusions itself.

Aishwarya claims that the proper antidote to avoiding this growing fragile-ness is to embrace the 'wisdom of insecurity'...to train our capacity to handle the tension of insecurity and confusion without running away from it.

Perhaps this is the most essential quality of the human spirit and consciousness itself.