The One Thing AI Can’t Replicate

✏️ It Wrote My Script — But Took Something With It

One night a little while ago, I was editing a script — nothing fancy, just a short intro video for a colleague’s workshop. I’d been meaning to do it for days.

But as always, I was busy with other things to get done before bed.
So I asked ChatGPT to take a stab at it first.

And as I thought it might, it nailed the tone. The formatting. Even dropped in a snappy closing line I almost wished I had written. All I had to do was tweak a couple phrases, move a sentence around, and boom — done in five minutes.

But as I considered it, here’s the thing:
I didn’t feel good.

Not because I used AI — I use AI all the time!
It was something else. Something quieter. Something like... detachment.

I realized that I had outsourced the part that used to light me up!

And I found myself wondering:
If AI keeps getting better at what I do…
what does it mean for me to keep showing up as me?

Yeah, I took a moment for that one, lol.

🧩 Losing the Thread Isn’t About Productivity — It’s About Identity

That feeling?
That wasn’t a tech problem.
It was a human one.

It reminded me just how easy it can be to lose pieces of ourselves — not because AI replaces us, but because we slowly start handing ourselves over.

Not all at once mind you...
But decision by decision. Prompt by prompt.
Until one day we stop asking: What does this mean to me?

🤖 Smart Doesn’t Equal Wise. Fast Doesn’t Equal True.

AI can generate answers.
But only we ask why those answers matter.
Only we know what it means to regret, to reconsider, to pause before hitting send.

Only humans carry the weight of consequences.

And in a world obsessed with optimization and scale, being human isn’t a flaw to fix — it’s a compass to hold onto.

Because when tech evolves faster than we can keep up, it’s not just intelligence we need.

It’s integrity.
It’s presence.
It’s wisdom.

🧭 We Can Use the Tools. But We Don’t Have to Become Them.

AI will keep improving. That’s inevitable.
But how we show up beside it — that’s still our choice.

Staying human doesn’t mean going offline.
It means logging in with clarity.
Showing up with purpose.
And never forgetting that the most important thing we bring to any tool… is us.

This is Part 4 of the AI Insights series.
In Part 5, we’ll talk about how to teach AI literacy and wisdom — not just to students or teams, but to ourselves.

Let’s keep going.
The future is still very much human. With robot interns. 😉

#AI #AIInsights #FranklySpeaking #StayingHuman #DigitalWisdom #HumanCenteredAI #AIEthics