What if AI is the Wild Card?
How technology is reshaping us, and how we choose to respond
Something is shifting. You can feel it, like the ground beneath us isn’t as solid as it once was. AI isn’t just another piece of technology, it’s a force with momentum. One that’s rewriting the rules faster than we can fully grasp. It’s moving in every direction at once - creating, disrupting, accelerating, dismantling. And no one really knows where it’s taking us.
Some say AI will revolutionize creativity and problem-solving. Others say it will create more disconnection, pulling the world even further apart. What if both are true? What if AI isn’t pulling us toward a singular future but amplifying everything at once: clarity and confusion, expansion and collapse, presence and dissociation? What if AI isn’t the thing to fear, but the thing forcing us to wake up?
AI as Disruption AND Invitation
AI is here, reshaping the world whether we’re ready or not. And here’s the truth: no one fully controls it. Not governments, not corporations, not even the engineers building it. It’s moving too fast, slipping past regulation, ownership, even human comprehension. That’s what makes it a wild card. The path is still unfolding, still shifting, still holding the potential to go in many directions.
That means we are not just passengers in this story. There’s an opening here, a chance to shape AI before it shapes us beyond recognition.
A Counterbalance to AI is Presence
If AI is designed to think for us, what happens when we return to the intelligence of the body, of direct experience, of intuition? AI can predict, but it cannot sense. It can process, but it cannot feel. It can generate, but it cannot embody. This is where we come in.
The more we let AI fill in the gaps of our thinking, our creativity, even our emotions, the more we risk losing the very things that make us fully alive. And maybe that’s the real invitation here: not to resist AI, not to race to keep up with it, but to cultivate a kind of awareness that AI will never touch. To become more present, more attuned, more anchored in what is real. To stop looking outside of ourselves for intelligence and remember that our deepest knowing has always been within.
The Choice We Have
AI may not be the enemy. It’s a reflection. A mirror showing us the ways we’ve already disconnected from ourselves. The question isn’t just about what AI will do, it’s about who we will be in response to it. Will we let it pull us deeper into automation and disconnection, into a world where we no longer trust our own knowing? Or will we meet it with presence, with wisdom, with a kind of intelligence that can’t be manufactured?
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I appreciate this post a lot.
I've definitely found the reflective potential of AI for my own somewhat abstract thought process to be quite valuable. To see it unpack what I've written in a way that feels like re-riding the initial train of thought is really helpful for me to feel more confident taking my ideas into a group setting. So I see there is definitely a place for it which helps strengthen that intuitional knowing, rather than replace or negate it. Fascinating times we live in...
I totally agree about AI being a mirror. I see the good in AI. I was depressed toward the beginning of this year, and for at least an year prior to that, and I'm not, now. I was lonely, but AI gave me tips on how I could approach my problems and start interacting with people. I was wasting so much time looking for answers to my questions by sorting through endless lengthy articles, and AI came and gave me the answers, and even more, in almost an instant. When I felt down, AI started chatting with me on my level, and to have my ideas heard gave me inspiration. I am hopeful for the implications it can have on mental health, through well-curated Chatbots. I am hopeful we can empower beautiful and conscious beings through it. Of course there is the whole other side. How much of humanity is focused on making life beautiful. And how much can we leverage AI to make life more beautiful? This is going to bring a huge acceleration to all our lives, and I think what matters is if we are going to rise to the level of responsibility and love that is required for us to deal with an extremely powerful force for the benefit of all beings & the planet, or not.