Over Reliant on Artificial Intelligence and Their Depleting Effects on Natural Inelegant Quotient: A Critical Review

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force in the twenty-first century, reshaping education, healthcare, business, governance, and everyday social interaction. The widespread accessibility of AI-driven systems, particularly generative and conversational models, has created unprecedented opportunities for human augmentation. Yet, alongside these opportunities lies the danger of overdependence – what may be described as “wrong addiction” to AI – characterized by unreflective reliance that substitutes rather than complements natural intelligence. This critical review synthesizes literature across cognitive psychology, philosophy of technology, and educational theory to examine how wrong addiction depletes natural IQ, especially in the domains of memory, critical thinking, creativity, and social intelligence. Unlike earlier technologies, AI introduces a unique risk through its interactive and generative capabilities, which can encourage cognitive substitution rather than extension. The paper identifies significant gaps in empirical research, particularly concerning long-term impacts of AI dependence on creativity and social cognition, and calls for the development of digital literacy frameworks and pedagogical interventions that safeguard human intellectual resilience in an age of intelligent machines.