Once we let the chatbot fill the blank page, the bot's text will shape our understanding of the topic — with whatever limitations, biases and errors go with it. To effectively assess AI-generated drafts, we'll need to be able to ask difficult questions, analyze evidence, consider counterarguments — in other words, to do the same important work we do when we write ourselves. But if we no longer value doing our own writing — if every time we open a Google or Word document, we're prompted to save time by turning to the bot — we may get to the point when we don't know how to think for ourselves anymore. Even if we don't lose our jobs to AI, we'll lose what matters about them.