Humans create technology, and thereafter technology “trains” humans. That reciprocal interaction between humans and their creations worked for inventions as diverse as the printing press and the automobile. The technology retrained humans to adapt to what those creations could do, fundamentally changing huma n culture. Now digital technology is working through the training of humans to assimilate and yield to its steadily expanding capabilities. We note four stages of the process: (1) personal computers (PCs) taught humans how to use the new tech to ease workloads; (2) smartphones made computing ubiquitous and provided tools that added convenience, even as dependence became standard; (3) software displaced user choices and delivered what it said users wanted, adding a level of near addiction to the use of the tech; and (4) generative AI (artificial intelligence) started displacing human thought, providing answers to questions, always with linguistic sophistication but occasionally with errors, sometimes egregious. Studies have shown that increasing dependence on GenAI, chatbots and other tools lessens users’ cognitive capabilities, moving them from employing tools to ease work (“cognitive offloading”) to overdependence on AI (“cognitive laziness”) and eventually to yielding to AI’s answers (“cognitive surrender”). Meanwhile, as the smartphone continued to spread, scores on IQ (intelligence quotient) tests started to decline. Are humans okay with this reality?