George Kao argues AI can't replicate five things humans have: spiritual intuition, taste in how you express yourself, the ability to act on what you actually want, and the empathic presence clients pay for. Technical skill isn't what makes you irreplaceable.
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What side of the AI debate are you on? Are you tending to be more AI resistant and avoidant, or are you very much pro the use of AI if we don't use AI Effectively, it's going to create what some people are calling brain rot, right? Or other people call the erosion of our sovereignty. So there are dangers, and then there are also enormous benefits and opportunities. My question for you is, what do you think AI will have a harder time replicating in your work? AI doesn't have the human divine connection as far as we know. Okay, Meaning where do your brilliant ideas, sparks of intuition, and sort of your spiritual guidance come from? We have sort of like spiritual intuition that AI doesn't have. Right. As far as we know. I believe that the true connection to the divine is unique to humans. Okay, that's number one. Number two is I'll say taste. Okay? Taste is something that is uniquely human. You'll notice that when you put things into AI you know, and what it comes out with, you're like, yeah, that's not quite how a human would say it. The taste isn't there. Our divine spark has particular ability to sense what is good, beautiful, and true in a kind of a divine way that machine intelligence without the divine connection doesn't have. Another really important irreplaceable thing from AI is your. Your. Your desires and your sensitivity to your desires. And then you're taking action upon your desires. So sensitivity to and then taking action upon your desires creates more personal empowerment. And then finally, AI Cannot replace the human presence with your clients. AI is nice to everybody and can pretend to like you, but feeling love for another soul, that is still irreplaceable and perhaps will always be. We know that we suffer, and we know that our clients suffer. And the more that you can empathize with your clients in their suffering and connect to them with love, that is something that clients will always treasure. That.