People are not really afraid of AI becoming too powerful.

They are afraid it may become more human than us.

I see this fear whenever AI is compared to human creativity or empathy, whether in my 13 year old’s classes where the very ai we distrust, is used to incorrectly identify creative writing as ai with kids having no way to prove otherwise. Or writing online in places like Reddit where empathetic writing that elicits emotions from readers flag it as Ai to be removed by moderators. We project possibility onto machines while overlooking the depth that already exists in ourselves and others.

The ones building and owning AI are extractive of us to resell the illusion of us to us. They do not act with our humanity at the center. And still, we turn against ourselves. We doubt our worth. We give up qualities we once held close.

The common story is that AI is dangerous because it will take our jobs, mislead us or create misinformation. But I believe the deeper fear is that AI might mirror back qualities like empathy, creativity, and truth. If that happens, we are forced to confront how often we abandoned those qualities in our own lives and work.

Emerging technologies are inevitable.

What if the point is not to fear.

What if the point is to build tools that bring us back to ourselves.

Not replacements for relationships, but mirrors of individual humanity.

Ways to see ourselves again. To remember dignity. To feel purpose. To reconnect with each other.

This is what I have always believed in and I believe in humanity, in us, in you, in me. I’m building this shit.