Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

When intelligence gets cheap, judgment becomes priceless

A lot of people are treating AI like it’s going to replace “thinking.” It won’t.

What it will replace is the comforting illusion that thinking was optional.

AI is great at producing an answer. It’s terrible at taking responsibility for one.

It can generate a strategy, a lesson plan, a policy, a diagnosis. But it can’t own the consequences when the strategy fails, the lesson lands wrong, the policy harms someone, the diagnosis is incomplete.

That part is still on us.

So the question is not “how do I compete with AI?” The question is “what kind of human am I willing to be when I can’t hide behind the task anymore?”

When intelligence gets cheap, judgment becomes priceless.

That’s the work.


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