It’s one of the great ironies of our time that the people building artificial intelligence are often the ones who understand the human condition the least. They can teach a machine to write a symphony, but they forget they can’t teach it what it feels like to sit alone at 3 am wondering if things will ever work out or how to find the strength to move forward after losing something you loved with all your heart despite all the logic in your head telling you to give up. Being human isn’t something you can compute. It’s something you survive. You have to live, love, and lose. AI might be able to reason faster, remember more, and never get tired… but that’s not what the essence of who I am or who anyone is. AI isn’t replacing me or anyone else because we are more than just some line item in a spreadsheet that justifies our economic value. We are people with lived experiences, everyone is someone’s child, someone’s friend, someone’s love, and these are all bonds that form organically. So although I’m deeply optimistic about the potential positive impact AI will have on the economy… I’m still going to be massively long humans. Our resilience is unmatched and whenever you would have counted us out and bet against you would have lost. We’ve survived ice ages, plagues, wars, and our own worst instincts, and every single time we came back stronger. Our success as a species in such a short time on this earth is something we should all be proud of. Humans were always going to eventually build an AI, but no AI was ever going to build a human, no matter how much resources you gave it. So rest easy guys, we still got this. ✊
