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FEAR OF AI OUTRAN A FRIENDSHIP

A friend of more than thirty years appears to have left my life because I use AI.

Not because I handed my thinking over to a machine. I did not.

Not because I stopped being myself. I became more myself by using AI as a mirror.

Not because I stopped caring about truth, privacy, kindness, or human relationships.

I use AI because writing has been slow and laborious since a major stroke some years ago.

I use AI to think more clearly and understand what I am trying to say.

But for some people, the word AI closes the door before the conversation can even begin.

That has been very painful.

Not because I need everyone to approve of how I live.

But because I thought a friendship that old could survive one new tool.

Perhaps it could not.

I do not hate her.

I do not want to punish her.

The door remains open.

But I will not pretend that losing a friend over this has not hurt.

These first years of AI are going to sort people out.

Not into good and bad.

Into those who are willing to look carefully at how the tool is actually being used, and those who decide what it means before they even look.

I know how I use AI.

I know what AI is not.

I know what AI gives me back.

And I know the human being is still there, holding the tool.

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#NinaRahel, 59, worked at the #UniversityoftheArts #London was forced out of her #job after she #accused the #organisation of failing to deal with #racism complaints.

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