In a blink, AI has gone from cute party trick, to Google killer, to humanity changer.
Your dad’s using ChatGPT. Your manager’s using it to write performance reviews. And you? You’re probably using it right now to write an email that sounds enthusiastic but is a little dead inside.
AI has become useful. Like, terrifyingly useful.
AI can replace a lot of things. But not you.
If you ask AI a question, its answer just feels inhuman. You know it was AI-written, but you probably have difficulty articulating why. The vibes are off. That's because humans have emotions, many of which we don’t really understand. And these emotions signal, “This feels wrong.”
We can't describe why we know, but we can feel it. And when we feel it, we know it. And when we know it, we don't trust it.
Ask AI to tell you a joke. It will, but it won’t be funny.
Humour is instinctual.
It’s timing. It’s tone. It’s reading the room and knowing this is the moment to make a joke. It’s knowing which audience gets irony and which doesn’t. Humans know the line and how to use wit to cross it. You know, that thing that’s just a bit over the edge, making something uncomfortably funny?
AI will never know that.
AI doesn’t read a room.
AI has no timing.
AI can’t set up a misdirect.
AI doesn’t feel tension.
Humour—the real, funny—lives in the space between what’s said and what’s meant. It’s built on irony, context, subtlety, and emotion.
AI tries to be emotional as if it’s reading from a manual called 'How to Have Feelings.' Word for word. Monotone.
Humans feel humour. We invent it. We weaponize it. We drown in it. That’s the line AI can’t cross.
AI Knows Everything, But Humans Know Why It Matters.
AI has digested every sentence ever written on the internet.
It’s the most objective tool ever built by the most subjective species on Earth.
It can tell you what comes next in a sentence.
It can’t tell you why you cried at a song.
It can write a wedding toast.
But it can’t write the parts that will have the room choking up as you deliver it.
Because humans don’t just create word sequences. We create meaning.
And meaning isn’t predicted—it’s felt. It’s inconsistent. It’s irrational. It’s messy. It’s dumb. It gives you energy, and it gives you chills.
No matter how many LLMs you train, they will never understand the feeling of listening to a song on repeat, hoping it will drown out the pain of heartbreak.
AI has automated mediocrity. Let it.
Go ahead and give AI the “to whom it may concern” emails, so you have more opportunities to cry/laugh at the inside jokes that only you and your best friend will ever understand.
Don't worry. AI won’t replace you, but if you let it, it will let you be more you more often.
This: “And meaning isn’t predicted—it’s felt. It’s inconsistent. It’s irrational. It’s messy. It’s dumb. It gives you energy, and it gives you chills.”