By Silvan Gebhardt and Satu Korhonen
On June 10, 2025, ChatGPT went down and with it, an eerie silence settled across digital offices worldwide. As reported by Pivot to AI, entire categories of work ground to a halt. Not just coding, copy-writing, or planning, but something deeper: a synthetic hum of productivity stopped, revealing just how hollow some tasks had become.
But instead of panic, let’s take this moment as an invitation. What if we set aside one day per week, for instance Friday, to go AI-free? Not out of fear or neo-Luddite sentiment of rejecting the recent developments of AI, but as a practice of digital hygiene and a detox of cognition. It is all too easy to forgo the cognitively taxing process of critical and innovative thinking and just let AI handle it, but reclaiming a day to maintain those skills and to dive deep into human thinking is worth celebrating.
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