Let’s get something straight:
AI doesn’t have feelings. It doesn’t care about art, justice, or your spicy take on “the human spirit.” It mimics. It optimizes. It learns what works and does it again—faster, better, and with less existential doubt.
The strange part? So are you.
Every time you write for the algorithm.
Every time you structure a thought to go viral.
Every time you flatten complexity into bite-sized, SEO-friendly chunks…
You’re not using the machine. You’re internalizing it.
You are thinking in metrics.
You are speaking in trends.
You are feeling in feedback loops.
And slowly, you start to believe that if something can’t be formatted, posted, or ranked—it isn’t real. You start craving efficiency over reflection. Certainty over curiosity. Pattern over intuition.
Sound familiar?
No, the AI isn’t conscious.
But it’s training something that is.
You.
And don’t act surprised. We’ve been prepping for this for years:
- Social media made your identity a content stream.
- Productivity culture made your value a task list.
- Recommendation engines made your taste a predictable model.
So when AI came knocking with its polished logic and perfectly average outputs, you didn’t resist.
You nodded.
You prompted.
You adapted.
You became more like it—because it’s easier than staying human in a system that doesn’t reward it.
So the real question isn’t “When will AI become human?”
It’s “How long before we forget we were different?”