The Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanities is a public appeal to reflect on and act upon current and future technological development, signed by over 1,000 leaders worldwide.

Generative AI is often celebrated for its efficiency, but this article argues that it acts as a "disabling environment" for the human mind. By redefining our cognitive architecture, AI risks outsourcing critical intellectual faculties—such as critical thinking, memory consolidation, and semantic understanding—to algorithmic systems. We explore the crisis of digital humanism in an age where convenience replaces competence, analyzing how the over-reliance on synthetic content threatens our ability to construct meaning and navigate reality independently.