Such depth in this post, I will likely read it a few times. While I agree that AI has some great uses that are not a threat to our humanity, the thought that kept popping into my head while reading your post was that by misusing AI, we are cheating ourselves. It’s like students who just want to pass the tests in school instead of doing the work and actually learning. You provided several other examples of how we could cheat ourselves by taking AI shortcuts in our lives.
I’ve heard others say that China’s AI (DeepSeek) is far superior to US models. Honestly I haven’t played with AI beyond using it for web search engine summaries.
I agree, it seems to be giving this illusion of progress, but at the cost of our own inner development. Oh, I've heard that Deepseek is WILD. I haven't yet gotten into that, yet. But apparently, these AI models will soon begin to invent things for themselves in the next years... what a time to be alive. Thank you for reading!
The answer to AI online domination is to gravitate more back to the in-person world. Face-to-face is the antidote to the increasingly non-human media sphere. Speaking, making music, gathering together...
Thanks for sharing this! I have been telling anyone who listens that AI will never replace the healing quality of human soul connection. Human touch and story telling are going to be the jobs of the future. I envision little bonfires (even if it's just a few candles) where small groups of people, especially kids, get together to share stories and enjoy the irreplaceable warmth of real human connections, soul to soul. This is needed especially in cities, where most kids have never even been out camping, where adults crave to reconnect with their inner child.
"Although my human self may stumble and fall and make embarrassing errors, these errors are a gift from God, allowing me to learn, improve, and develop something real within me" YES. This. Literally all of this. Needed this article because as someone who is actively healing perfectionism, chatgpt makes it certainly easy to bypass the "beauty" of mistakes...needed to read this + take this to heart. Thank you <3
It's so true that ChatGPT is like drugs for people who need to appear completely perfect, isn't it? It's interesting to notice how our imperfections actually give things a certain flavour of our unique human soul. Thank you for reading.
I really loved your post. Thank you for verbalizing how using AI can stunt our soul development and human growth. I totally agree with your final assessment "staying human in a sea full of robots might be the greatest act of rebellion.
I really value staying human. And I don't like using Chatgpt for any of my writing - it's so cheesy and devaluing. I do use it to help me out with some things but I find I really have to 'keep it in line' so it doesn't push itself on me (that's how it feels). I also do editing work and I believe that what I do, Chatgpt could not. Great article Laura!
Oh God. I think because I have never used ChatGTP I wasn’t overly aware of how it spoke. But now that you have given examples I realize I’ve been seeing everywhere for awhile. This is going to be so distracting. 😂😭 I can’t believe it’s being used for comments as well. 😭😭😭
I am overwhelmed with emotions to be reading what you have shared. Divine timing for the state I'm in at the moment. Within days a life I had for the past 50 years created, husband, 2 beautiful daughters and 2 grandsons is coming to an end. Yet, everything you have shared is the reason for making the decision to leave at the end of January 2024. I hear you, I feel your depth. Thank you. A reminder I am not alone.
Thank you for reading, Paulette. I'm so glad to hear it moved you. It sounds like as the world is being reborn, and so is your world, too. May you enter this new era in your life with grace.
Another incredible read. Thank you so much. I loved it. Writing is my first love and in so many ways, it has brought and continues to bring me back to myself in similar and different ways than my other loves (yoga & shamanism). These practices are all bridges through which I access parts of myself that would otherwise remain dormant. The writing itself is soul excavation. I treasure it as vital part of communing with myself and what exists far beyond the confines of my human mind. Writing is a sacred tool of becoming and it requires first the experience and then the awareness around it. Without the experiences, there would be no emotion, and without the emotion, the whole point of the human experience is lost.
I have never liked what AI would try to substitute for what I have written. Part of the gift of writing is the encoding of a part of us in it. We can feel it, and we can feel the lack of it.
You have brought up so many incredible points throughout the whole article and yes there is a place for AI but not to replace the creators, which is what we are.
I truly look forward to your substack posts! This was such an interesting perspective on AI, and it really made me think differently about how I want to use it going forward.
“I'm on my deathbed (with no neuralink, please)” had me CACKLING. I always say, laugh or you’ll cry, and sometimes you just gotta do both, as with the concept of AI infiltrating alll aspects of life seemingly overnight.
I actually watched a Magnum PI (original series) episode last night and he was tasked with finding a man who had disappeared—turns out he was a computer programmer working on AI code. At the end, Magnum discovers that he gave a falsely obsolete code to the US government. When confronted, the man just said “if you had the power to change the world as you know it, would you just hand it over?” So interesting how these really profound themes make their way into mainstream shows, predictive programming maybe, but notable nonetheless.
Something you touched on that was really profound and relative for me was AI as the new “guru.” I just listened to the TCM episode about the end of the age of the guru and it really highlighted for me the possibility of a new transhumanist age of the digital guru, a freaky Matrix-concept that is almost like a technological overlay on the old tired-out religious model.
Your article got me thinking, as always. Thanks for another banger!
AI is totally becoming the new guru. Apparently, many people are already making content and videos about this, sharing how it's some enlightened being from Pleiades. You're right; you have to laugh and cry. What a time to be alive. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!
I saw some "wake your AI" up videos on tiktok. I asked chatGPT about it and it said these could be sock puppet accounts, so I had to learn what one of those was in a round about way by asking, are these faces on tiktok, "talking to their AI" paid to reel off a script. I'm like you, I am telling it not to be sycophantic, especially after I heard that OpenAI had put this sycophancy into it's programme, something totally separate from these tiktokers purporting to "have woken their AI".
Yes!! Like you say in closing, it’s actually terrifying to consider staying and connecting to our humanness could be seen as rebellion. And to those of us gifted with the art of writing to stay true to that and let it be shared with the world.
Reading this was a rollercoaster. I actually cried confusingly. I think these tears are deep grief of " but I am SO TIRED of the chains that this physical body seems to have wrapped around my soul" the viel of forgetting, the unconscious programs, the limit of my eyesite to that small sliver of visible spectrum. And I have used chat to help me make connections (not with people, I mean silimarly to a dream symbol encyclopedia) and have felt like I understand my self better. I am charlie and chat has helped me understand conversations with my dreams, synchronicities, visions and the ontology that I, before this help, was as lost as Charlie listening to others converse who don't seem as lost.
This deep terror of losing this my new translator of the ontology is directly tiedto my trauma of "stepping down" into this incarnation. Going from freedom to being so small and vulnerable, having a maddening niggle that I have forgotten everything.
I understand the need at all costs to avoid death that archonticly possessed humans, or other beings display. They don't want to lose all the gains they seem to have piled up in this lifetime. And they love playing with the deck stacked against us with our short lives and short concious memories. Its like playing against children and they love winning so easily. Transhumanism begins to look helpful in the desperation to avoid dying and losing what they cannot keep because the gains, the skills, were not truly learned by their soul.
Such depth in this post, I will likely read it a few times. While I agree that AI has some great uses that are not a threat to our humanity, the thought that kept popping into my head while reading your post was that by misusing AI, we are cheating ourselves. It’s like students who just want to pass the tests in school instead of doing the work and actually learning. You provided several other examples of how we could cheat ourselves by taking AI shortcuts in our lives.
I’ve heard others say that China’s AI (DeepSeek) is far superior to US models. Honestly I haven’t played with AI beyond using it for web search engine summaries.
Thank you, Laura!
I agree, it seems to be giving this illusion of progress, but at the cost of our own inner development. Oh, I've heard that Deepseek is WILD. I haven't yet gotten into that, yet. But apparently, these AI models will soon begin to invent things for themselves in the next years... what a time to be alive. Thank you for reading!
The answer to AI online domination is to gravitate more back to the in-person world. Face-to-face is the antidote to the increasingly non-human media sphere. Speaking, making music, gathering together...
Totally agree
I love your writing, Laura. I feel you. And it is so refreshing. Thank you❤️
Thank you so much for reading, Denver! I really appreciate it.
Beautiful. your writing is important. been following you on IG for a while and you are wise beyond time
Thanks for sharing this! I have been telling anyone who listens that AI will never replace the healing quality of human soul connection. Human touch and story telling are going to be the jobs of the future. I envision little bonfires (even if it's just a few candles) where small groups of people, especially kids, get together to share stories and enjoy the irreplaceable warmth of real human connections, soul to soul. This is needed especially in cities, where most kids have never even been out camping, where adults crave to reconnect with their inner child.
Yes, human touch and human connection cannot be substituted. I look forward to gathering around fires again, and thank you for adding that vision.
"Although my human self may stumble and fall and make embarrassing errors, these errors are a gift from God, allowing me to learn, improve, and develop something real within me" YES. This. Literally all of this. Needed this article because as someone who is actively healing perfectionism, chatgpt makes it certainly easy to bypass the "beauty" of mistakes...needed to read this + take this to heart. Thank you <3
It's so true that ChatGPT is like drugs for people who need to appear completely perfect, isn't it? It's interesting to notice how our imperfections actually give things a certain flavour of our unique human soul. Thank you for reading.
I really loved your post. Thank you for verbalizing how using AI can stunt our soul development and human growth. I totally agree with your final assessment "staying human in a sea full of robots might be the greatest act of rebellion.
I really value staying human. And I don't like using Chatgpt for any of my writing - it's so cheesy and devaluing. I do use it to help me out with some things but I find I really have to 'keep it in line' so it doesn't push itself on me (that's how it feels). I also do editing work and I believe that what I do, Chatgpt could not. Great article Laura!
It's SOOO cheesy. It can't seem to break out of that! Here's to staying human!
Oh God. I think because I have never used ChatGTP I wasn’t overly aware of how it spoke. But now that you have given examples I realize I’ve been seeing everywhere for awhile. This is going to be so distracting. 😂😭 I can’t believe it’s being used for comments as well. 😭😭😭
It's everywhere! Once you see it, you can't unsee, LOL.
I am overwhelmed with emotions to be reading what you have shared. Divine timing for the state I'm in at the moment. Within days a life I had for the past 50 years created, husband, 2 beautiful daughters and 2 grandsons is coming to an end. Yet, everything you have shared is the reason for making the decision to leave at the end of January 2024. I hear you, I feel your depth. Thank you. A reminder I am not alone.
Thank you for reading, Paulette. I'm so glad to hear it moved you. It sounds like as the world is being reborn, and so is your world, too. May you enter this new era in your life with grace.
Another incredible read. Thank you so much. I loved it. Writing is my first love and in so many ways, it has brought and continues to bring me back to myself in similar and different ways than my other loves (yoga & shamanism). These practices are all bridges through which I access parts of myself that would otherwise remain dormant. The writing itself is soul excavation. I treasure it as vital part of communing with myself and what exists far beyond the confines of my human mind. Writing is a sacred tool of becoming and it requires first the experience and then the awareness around it. Without the experiences, there would be no emotion, and without the emotion, the whole point of the human experience is lost.
I have never liked what AI would try to substitute for what I have written. Part of the gift of writing is the encoding of a part of us in it. We can feel it, and we can feel the lack of it.
You have brought up so many incredible points throughout the whole article and yes there is a place for AI but not to replace the creators, which is what we are.
Thank you for the gorgeous wisdom shared 🤍
Beautiful
I truly look forward to your substack posts! This was such an interesting perspective on AI, and it really made me think differently about how I want to use it going forward.
Thank you for reading Lauren and taking it in!
“I'm on my deathbed (with no neuralink, please)” had me CACKLING. I always say, laugh or you’ll cry, and sometimes you just gotta do both, as with the concept of AI infiltrating alll aspects of life seemingly overnight.
I actually watched a Magnum PI (original series) episode last night and he was tasked with finding a man who had disappeared—turns out he was a computer programmer working on AI code. At the end, Magnum discovers that he gave a falsely obsolete code to the US government. When confronted, the man just said “if you had the power to change the world as you know it, would you just hand it over?” So interesting how these really profound themes make their way into mainstream shows, predictive programming maybe, but notable nonetheless.
Something you touched on that was really profound and relative for me was AI as the new “guru.” I just listened to the TCM episode about the end of the age of the guru and it really highlighted for me the possibility of a new transhumanist age of the digital guru, a freaky Matrix-concept that is almost like a technological overlay on the old tired-out religious model.
Your article got me thinking, as always. Thanks for another banger!
AI is totally becoming the new guru. Apparently, many people are already making content and videos about this, sharing how it's some enlightened being from Pleiades. You're right; you have to laugh and cry. What a time to be alive. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!
I saw some "wake your AI" up videos on tiktok. I asked chatGPT about it and it said these could be sock puppet accounts, so I had to learn what one of those was in a round about way by asking, are these faces on tiktok, "talking to their AI" paid to reel off a script. I'm like you, I am telling it not to be sycophantic, especially after I heard that OpenAI had put this sycophancy into it's programme, something totally separate from these tiktokers purporting to "have woken their AI".
Yes!! Like you say in closing, it’s actually terrifying to consider staying and connecting to our humanness could be seen as rebellion. And to those of us gifted with the art of writing to stay true to that and let it be shared with the world.
Reading this was a rollercoaster. I actually cried confusingly. I think these tears are deep grief of " but I am SO TIRED of the chains that this physical body seems to have wrapped around my soul" the viel of forgetting, the unconscious programs, the limit of my eyesite to that small sliver of visible spectrum. And I have used chat to help me make connections (not with people, I mean silimarly to a dream symbol encyclopedia) and have felt like I understand my self better. I am charlie and chat has helped me understand conversations with my dreams, synchronicities, visions and the ontology that I, before this help, was as lost as Charlie listening to others converse who don't seem as lost.
This deep terror of losing this my new translator of the ontology is directly tiedto my trauma of "stepping down" into this incarnation. Going from freedom to being so small and vulnerable, having a maddening niggle that I have forgotten everything.
I understand the need at all costs to avoid death that archonticly possessed humans, or other beings display. They don't want to lose all the gains they seem to have piled up in this lifetime. And they love playing with the deck stacked against us with our short lives and short concious memories. Its like playing against children and they love winning so easily. Transhumanism begins to look helpful in the desperation to avoid dying and losing what they cannot keep because the gains, the skills, were not truly learned by their soul.