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Tanner Gaffey

Using ChatGPT to Think for Me, Before I Realized I Was

I was agitated. My landlord had left a voicemail saying there were hundreds of dollars in late fees on my account. I knew that was wrong. A few weeks before the lease went into effect, they had sent me a notice saying they had posted the wrong rent amount and asked me to sign a...

AI Makes Everything Feel Possible

I was three paragraphs into a piece I was writing when I opened a new tab to look something up. By the time I came back, I had started outlining a different post, sketched the rough idea for a third, and was halfway through asking an AI to summarize a book that I had never...

Thought in the Age of AI

Most people treat AI as a tool. It is one. But it affects our minds differently than other tools have. As humans, we have always been shaped by what we build. Books restructured how we think. Social media reshaped how we attend. AI is doing something that neither of those did. It's participating...