I mean, we can’t out-AI an AI.

But we can out-human it.

Now is a time to lean into our humanity.

Yes, we can both do pattern recognition, and AI does it faster and more astutely.

But it can’t feel.

It can’t create the unknown.

It can only regurgitate.

These are the cracks in the pavement where living things sprout.

Where what is innately beautiful — life... See more

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.

And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more

Becoming unLLMable

In May, I delivered a version of this essay at the Sana AI Summit stage in Stockholm. The talk was titled “Becoming unLLMable.” My goal was to inspire and lead with hope. And it seemed to do just that—people were moved. For a moment, my own anxieties about AI quieted.

But afterward, in conversation after conversation, one question... See more