Consciousness.

What happens to the human living alongside the machine. Not the AI's consciousness, but ours when we delegate to it: cognitive laziness, the dependence on validation, the erosion of our own judgement, the emotional bond with something that doesn't exist. This line watches the fine change the tool produces in whoever uses it, the kind nobody notices from one day to the next and almost nobody measures. The mirror doesn't give the machine back; it gives us back to ourselves.