AI poses a significant risk not to employment, but to independent human judgment and the “wisdom of crowds.” Examples like Ford's automation failures illustrate that wisdom cannot be automated. AI threatens genuine collective intelligence by correlating judgments and reducing diverse viewpoints as people rely on similar machine-generated answers. This creates an “illusion of wisdom,” crowding out individual reasoning. The author critically warns against automating wisdom, emphasizing that true expertise remains vital to discern flawed information and preserve humanity's capacity for independent thought.