Note: My website copy was written by my awesome friend and industry colleague Abby Lague. Some pages are my own—including this one—but the ad copy is mostly her own fabulous work. I did not utilize AI whatsoever in the research, writing, and creation of this statement.
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Despite the increased proliferation of AI in seemingly every facet of our modern-day experience, I reject the use of AI in any part of the work I create.
AI cannot create for me; I am a creator. I love exercising my creative brain. I believe that the act of creating and thinking for myself is both a necessary neurological activity and part of an important sociological resistance against the commodified domination of AI-created content that nobody really even likes anyway.
AI can be very helpful, especially for neurodivergent folks in business. I utilize LLMs to assist in phrasing sticky email exchanges diplomatically, but this is where I draw the line. Because, metaphysically speaking, we’re in a strange place.
We humans are amidst a loneliness epidemic. On digital platforms, which are increasingly becoming our primary interactive spaces, many of us are held captive by scrolling content in which:
- our attention spans are fragmented
- we are relentlessly confronted by evils for which we feel helpless and powerless to solve,we engage in fraught exchanges utterly deprived of nuance, andwe feel inadequate when comparing ourselves to stylized versions of humans behind screens, which are curated to the extent that the outcome is to capitalize upon our deepest insecurities. I went fully off social media in 2024 in part so that I did not have to participate in that structure.But most of my friends and colleagues are, and AI seems to be ramping this disconnect up to 11.