Hi everyone, I have just reached level 2 and would like to make a first post of my own. I have always been interested in technology, economics, and human behavior, but only recently started writing about how they connect. How AI is used inside our systems is the focus here. It is what brought me here, and why ICM makes sense to me. I also like to explore how we humans behave with these systems. I am sharing an essay I originally wrote in Portuguese and translated into English for this community. It explores the social cost of asking another person for help, and how AI changes that choice. Asking a machine can spare us the embarrassment of admitting what we do not know, or the judgment that sometimes comes with an answer. I look at how that changes whom we turn to, what we trust, and how we relate to one another.