Dr. Noah St John argues that AI anxiety misses the point. What matters isn't protecting your specific skill, but the human qualities machines can't replicate: purpose, identity, creativity, adaptability. The real shift is learning to value what you bring beyond the task itself.
There is a question being typed into a search bar late at night more times this month than almost any other question about work. It is not, how do I use the new tools? It is quieter than that, and it is this: if a machine can do the thing I am good at, what am I now? If that sentence has ever crossed your mind in a parking lot or at 2 in the morning, stay with me for 6 minutes. By the end, you will see why the thing you are racing to protect is not the thing that is actually moving.
