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Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that’s bad news for patience

Christian B. Miller · 4 Jun 2026

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  1. Our reading

    AI tools foster a culture of immediacy that diminishes people's capacity for patience.

    Their wordsAI tools are helping foster a culture of immediacy, thereby diminishing the capacity for patience.

  2. Our reading

    Schools and churches should resist building AI tools into every part of their operations, even at some cost in efficiency.

    Their wordsThe more such institutions can resist integrating AI tools into every aspect of their operations, and instead incentivize human intellectual engagement even at the expense of efficiency, the better as far as patience is concerned.

  3. Our reading

    Patience can be built in parts of life that have nothing to do with research, such as crafts, gardening or sport.

    Their wordsPatience can be developed in lots of different areas of life that have nothing to do with research and which are less susceptible to AI incursion.

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