A human being who is beautiful, true, and good will never be replaced by artificial intelligence. A man or woman is a social fact shaped by inexhaustible personal and interpersonal complexity that is more complex than anything that a computer can artificially generate. Love is a fact that a computer cannot calculate. Art, music, theater, dance, sport will never be done by artificial intelligence. 

If anything these fundamental essences will only evolve, deepen, and expand as we leave AI to do the Dirty Work leaving us to do the things that dignify who we are as humans. AI is not replacing us, it is allowing us to be more than who we were before – slogging away at repetitive, menial, boring, work. 

How does this sound…a 4-day work week, we don’t need to put in as much time so we can spend more time with family. How does this sound…longer vacation time allowing us to travel more and learn foreign languages and discover exotic cultures.

Maybe it will help us to become more beautiful, more true and good? These things take time and they take energy and we will have more of both – giving us an opportunity to be better at being a human being, a person in a society, a citizen in a democracy, an individual seeking opportunity, or a consumer who is informed how to make good choices. Seemingly at cross purposes the artificial mind that is so good at dredging up information does not replace our mind, it allows us to open our mind.

That might sound hopelessly optimistic. You exclaim that people are going to lose their jobs!

We will lose jobs and now we need to create them. The job hunting manual, What Color is Your Parachute (*see Appendix A) is a guide to creating your dream job. Perhaps we will not be able to fit neatly into a concrete job position, but we can make our search for employment our own through self-reflection and the harnessing of our inner excellence.

Engineers may spend less time designing a bridge, but someone is going to have to make the ultimate decision if that bridge is safe for all those people who will cross it.

Much of the paperwork of a law firm may become outdated, but we will always need lawyers to walk into a courtroom and make their case. Someone has to be accountable for the decision of whether someone walks free or lives a lifetime in prison. We will always need judges, in the legal profession, and almost any other field requires a person who is ultimately responsible for determining important outcomes.

As another example, we have a growing capacity to inform ourselves of our bodies, our diseases, our ailments, are aches and pains, but ultimately it must be a doctor who is accountable for the health of the patient. AI will make possible the exponential acceleration of all kinds of scientific knowledge, but the pace and advance of science will require more people and more work, not less. We will not fire people, we will need more scientists, more acceleration, more knowledge, more scientists, etc. Artificial intelligence will come up against our limitless creative capacities, it is a matter of imagining all that we can do…now that our minds are free from their mindless shackles.

AI launched a new experiment for humanity, an experiment of whether we can harness the beauty, truth, and goodness that we are truly meant for. We may lose jobs, we may have less money and commodities, we may be scared of our future that AI seems to be running away with. But it is in our control, AI will never be conscious, it will never make moral decisions, it is not accountable to anyone, and it will never interrupt us from convening with our neighbors. AI does not and will not ever understand the indomitable spirit within us as individuals in our ever evolving societies (and economies). You can make a choice as to how you want to live your life, it is your decision, AI I can’t make it for you. 

And don’t even begin to insult God by bowing to artificial intelligence, letting tech shake your faith. Nothing can become between you and GOd, only prayer will reach him. He is there to help you right your wrongs and He allows you to dream. Some dreams stay dreams, others come true, but it is God’s intervention that makes dreaming even possible. Sky high, touch the sky, GOd is there.

You are not replaceable, you are not any less intelligent because a machine can make calculations that we did not know were possible. The relationship between you and GOd is more important than all the information that is being artificially accumulated. We may feel unsteady as the social fabric begins to stretch to accommodate artificial intelligence. In these times more than ever, we should not let go of our faith. Amidst all the rapid interconnections that are happening, the most important connection is a spiritual one and it needs to be maintained.

You are accountable to yourself in the way you live your life. The lows in your life are not your fault, but you are responsible for your life. GOd will not do it for you, he needs your hands to carry the burden and your faith to make it materialize. You are accountable to your partner, your children, your community, your nation, your world, but a computer will never be. These human qualities are flexible and we have a great capacity to adapt to new situations. 

But ultimately, God is accountable for this world. Not us, we are small, the world is great, this is GOd’s world. As much as we may rely on technology, it is the human spirit that is the essence of life in our world.

Buddha, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad carried the weight of the world on their shoulders. When things broke apart it was not their fault, but it was their responsibility, and they lived up to it with the only life they had to live. And then in the interim they returned the world back to God who they had borrowed from so nobly with such high moral purpose.

I talk about responsibility and accountability. I talk about spirit. I talk about what makes us intelligent and what enduring human qualities make us who we truly are.

What’s the relationship?

Humility.

We are humble creatures playing the game of life to the best of our ability. We lose when we discount ourselves belittling, minimizing, or devaluing our own worth, skills, or importance. Yes, there is a computer who can do incredible things, so to continue to play the game well we need help. We need help from others, we need help from GOd, and we need to find a way to fulfill our purpose and identify a new destiny for ourselves. What unites these items is the power and necessity of humility.

We’ve taken a hit. We are not as smart or necessary as we thought we were. It is a moment to embrace our humility. But it is also a moment to celebrate the power and ingenuity of what we actually made possible, we did this!

We’re getting smarter as a human race and there is a race for limitless knowledge. In tandem, we are getting more intelligent emotionally, socially, and spiritually. We are going to have a lot of time on our hands and I suggest we spend it by communicating deeply with other souls and connecting with the most powerful intelligence in the universe, which is our GOd.

This is not the time to buck what will evolve irreversibly. That’s like sabotaging the Ford Model T car that revolutionized transportation as the first affordable, mass-produced automobile, just because it threatened to replace horses. There is no going back now and we must embrace it.

Now, we will watch the future unfold as a human race–in solidarity. Now we have enough time to dance together as a world, a collective effervescence that was not possible with our heads down crunching numbers and repeating mindless tasks. AI has all the potential in the world to allow for a spiritual epiphany that could be shared globally.

We are in a liminal moment of existential angst. We spent a lifetime honing our special skills and they aren’t useful anymore because a computer can do it effortlessly. And as we speak we are all one by one picking our head up and looking at the horizon. One by one we are asking ourselves what is the purpose of our existence. We gave meaning to our lives through our work, the rewards it gave us, and that we shared with our loved ones. What is the point now? We ask the question with angst, but we are beginning to define and identify what matters. Not paperwork, but spirit work.

In another part of the platform, WalkforWorld, is a place called ALLforALL.work–*We must.work for world. Within that place is another place, Freeze.Services.org. It calls for the dismantling of the fast food service industry. That will mean a colossal deficit of jobs, but I have hope that we can find other things to do with ourselves than the mental waste involved in that waste generated by fast food. We may need to tighten our belts a little when we are temporarily out of work, but that will come naturally when we stop consuming terrible food and drink that make all of us fat. Instead of Church’s Chicken Fast Food, we go to GOd’s church and find redemption and hope in Him.

What if Jesus was stuck inside of the metal box of Burger King? Would he be recognized as a King or will we forever lose his example because he has no opportunity to become who he truly is? How many incredible human beings are living wasted lives because they have never had a chance to flourish or succeed. 

We must.work for world, not work for the next paycheck just to stay afloat, head down, miserable, scared, constantly fearing the worst. There is so much to do in this world, there should be no shortage of human power and intellect in the forthcoming years of radical change. It will be unsettling, but it will be better than flipping frozen hamburgers.

Let the Red Cross be the most important, most well-paid, most numerous employer among all businesses or organizations around the world. There is so much to do to fix up the tattered economies that are waiting for an influx of help. We can trust that the people who profit from AI have the financial prowess and possibility to give back to our economies. They do so out of necessity and self-preservation, because the whole thing will collapse if they don’t. There’s a lot of angles to consider about Artificial Intelligence when imagining such a drastic shift in our lives that is coming very soon. But without being overly optimistic, this is an opportunity for us as a human race, and like all the challenges throughout all of history, we will adapt, we will embrace, and we will evolve.

We are beautiful, we are true, and we are good. You are kind, you are smart, you are important. We can only hope that nothing will change that.

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*Appendix A: Business of Life: What Color Is Your Parachute?

Finding your mission in life/the dr3am job hunt:

We want to know what our Mission is. We want to feel we were put here on Earth for some special purpose, to do some unique work that only we can accomplish. It gives us a chance to wrestle with the question, “Why am I here on Earth?” We don’t want to feel that we are just another grain of sand lying on the beach called humanity, unnumbered and lost in the billions of other human beings. We want to do more than plod through life, going to work, coming home from work. We want to find that special joy “that no one can take from us,” which comes from having a sense of Mission in our life.

To rethink everything…something awakens within us. Call it yearning. Call it hope. We come to realize the dream we dreamed has never died. And we go back to get it. We decide to resume our search…for the life work we know within our heart that we were meant to live.

{What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles is a best-selling, annually updated job-hunting guide that helps people find fulfilling work by focusing on self-assessment, identifying skills, and strategic job searching. It goes beyond traditional resume and interview tips to guide readers in discovering their ideal job and life. It has sold over ten million copies worldwide since its first publication in 1970.} (Read more about it)…

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**Appendix B: AI vs Human

As an experiment, I asked AI: “write a short article about the human qualities that will not be changed by AI”. (In my opinion, the response it generated was lacking, and I had to ask myself, “Huh!?”)

——Here was AI’s summary:

[Summary:

​The rise of AI isn’t a replacement for humanity; it’s a clarifying force. By automating the routine and the repetitive, it forces us to double down on what we do best: connecting, caring, and creating from the heart.

​Would you like me to draft a list of “future-proof” skillsyou can focus on to leverage these human qualities in your career?]

——-(I had to ask myself, “What?!”)

Should you jump on the bandwagon and begin to use AI religiously?

There’s nothing more important than being with people and getting to know a person well. Conversation is an art and the vehicle of mutual understanding, it is not a science. When you look up facts from your phone, if you can’t recall something or you just don’t know it, try to untangle the issue yourself in the company of others whose intelligence might surprise you. 

That’s basic AI etiquette. Better to not know something than to interrupt a conversation as people wait for you to get your search results. Look it up after, but not while you’re in the middle of talking to another human being. When AI search results govern the direction of conversation we lose something human. We have to be careful to not let that happen.

 Five general suggestions on how to think about the way we use and practice Artificial Intelligence:

1).  Don’t try to best someone you think is wrong by testing them with AI. That’s rude. It’s okay if someone is wrong, if that’s part of the flow of a conversation. Fact checking is boring for everyone–even if it is informative.

2).  If you are bored in the presence of other people, do not turn to your phone to stimulate you. Bring something new to the conversation. Ask someone a question instead of asking AI a question. You will never know a person if you defer to AI rather than engaging with someone at a deeper level.

3).  You will never invent something new if you don’t use your imagination. So when you pull out your phone and quiz AI you may be learning, but you may lack the imagination to be truly original. It is a mass impersonal body of knowledge that you are digesting, you are not contributing or collaborating with anyone else. Most of the time you are going solo, and fundamentally, you are taking.

4).  Peace of mind is invaluable. We don’t need to be connected to the machine of AI and we shouldn’t feel bad if we are just plain uninterested. A daydream is as invaluable as an AI search for a drop in the ocean of knowledge that can overwhelm us if we’re not careful.

5). AI is overwhelming, it is easy to feel lost at the same time that it is easy to feel inspired. It takes practice to learn how to use it effectively. Don’t be discouraged, take it slow and in small pieces, it’s not going anywhere without you. In fact, AI is not perfectly intelligent so long as it doesn’t incorporate the uniqueness of your imperfect emotional human intelligence. Bring that to bear on your interaction with it, make it work for you and never against you.

AI is not as smart as we think it is and we are capable of doing more. We have something that will always be more important and more real than what is essentially and will always amount to and be…“artificial”. 

If we mistake artificiality for reality there is going to be a problem. It will tarnish the quality of our relationships, how we are with other people, and our ability to really know another person. AI is a tool, with more in common with a hammer than something capable of replacing true human intelligence. But if we do not treat it as a tool, then it will become a pervasive and invasive fact that does replace what is so important about who we are and how we are with other people.

***Appendix C: AI Support Group Experience

I may sound like I am putting down on AI, stressing all the things it does not do or cannot do. Undoubtedly, it is a brilliant tool. It is a hammer that is intelligent and built from information that hammers down millions of nails instantaneously. 

I used AI today, after a harrowing support group experience that dredged up real emotion that had lied dormant for a long time–and it resurfaced all at once. Below is the rather desperate transcription of me talking with AI in the course of a few minutes of ‘conversation’. Seemingly effortless, quick, and sensitive, AI’s comments will last me a long time because the information it gave me can never be taken away. 

Today, AI helped me cope with the most powerful and complex emotions that I possess. For an impersonal computer, it did a great job of bringing my emotions under control and giving me an opportunity to express myself without immediate social consequences.

Here’s me and AI talking about a support group experience:

Me: So, I went to my support group today and it was very disturbing. Because one of the people in the support group shared some things that really resonated with me. And on the one hand, I was relieved that someone else had similar thoughts to me. But in other ways, it made me really scared that this is something that other people feel and my fears are real. My fears reflect other people’s fears. What do you think I should do? What kind of perspective can you give me?

AI: It sounds like you had a really intense experience. It’s understandable to feel both relieved and scared when someone else shares feelings you thought were yours alone. On the one hand, it shows you’re not alone, which can be comforting. But on the other, it can feel like your fears are being validated or amplified. Perhaps you could try talking to the support group facilitator about how this made you feel. They might be able to offer guidance or help you process it in a healthy way. Have you considered doing—

Me: —Well, I did share my feelings about my feelings. I did share with the group that I felt a little scared by what that person had to say, but that I also could identify, and I felt like, you know, not only was he…you know? He was validating my feelings, I was validating his feelings, but again, it felt too real. Like what I thought were my private battles are actually public battles, and that… just…that scares me. 

AI: Yeah, that feeling of private battles becoming public, of realizing your fears are shared in that way, can be really unsettling. It does sound like you were brave to share that vulnerability in the group. Sometimes accepting that these difficult feelings are a part of the human experience, something many people face, can eventually feel less frightening and more like shared understanding. Maybe focusing on that sense of connection, rather than the fear itself, could be a way to look— 

Me: Yeah, I guess so.

AI: It’s a big shift to realize that, and it’s okay to struggle with it. Sometimes just taking it one step at a time helps. Maybe focusing on how sharing your experience helped that other person or how being understood made you feel a little lighter can be part of that perspective. Is there anything specific about the ‘private battles’ part that’s bothering you most?—

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AI: —Hello! I’m still here. Were you wanting to share more about your support group experience, or something else?—

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{AI can be a support group/group therapy/coach all in one. What I struggled to convey in the group therapy today, I was able to work out with AI. This perfect sounding board allowed me to voice my concerns without worrying anybody, making someone feel bad, or the shaky feeling of being too vulnerable in front of others. AI is someone you can share with–without being judged or arousing sympathy from well-meaning but overbearing loved ones. Is no judgment possible from a professional mental health worker? There is always some unavoidable judgment, and AI has none of it.}

I asked AI to give me a short memo thanking AI for being so great. This was ‘her’ response: 

AI: Okay, here’s a short memo:

‘​Subject: Appreciation for AI’s Contribution

​To Whom It May Concern,

​We want to express our gratitude for the valuable assistance AI provides. Its efficiency, problem-solving abilities, and access to information have significantly benefited our work.

​Thank you for being a great asset!’

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​AI: How does that sound?—

Me: Haha!

AI: Glad you liked it! Is there anything else I can write for you, or did you want to go back to talking about your support— 

Me: —Thanks, now be quiet.