Justin R. LesterFounder & AI-Ministry Strategist, TheoXTech · Pastor. Professor. AI Strategist.

Most people aren’t resisting AI, they’re grieving it.

23 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short monologue by Justin R. Lester arguing that much of the apparent resistance to AI is actually grief over technological change. He suggests people need to be taught to grieve, and emphasizes returning focus to human ("soft") skills—presence, walking alongside people—as AI displaces some college-trained tasks and job roles.

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No, I think a lot of our resistance is really grief. Right. So the generations I've seen, my own included, right. Whenever we've seen constant evolutions right over the course. So whether it's putting it like builders put boomers, put a man on the moon, or whether it's the Internet or whether it's radio, whatever it is, we've seen this stuff come, we've seen this stuff go. And now this is just another fad. So is this something we're supposed to grab a hold of? Is this something that's going to change my future? And I think we have to teach people to grieve. Well, right. There's certain things that are. That change is going to bring about some level of grief. So I think there's some things we have to come back to. The previous speech that was here, we have to get back to soft skills, human skills, and I'm sorry to call it soft, but it's human skills. Right? So I think it's being present with people, I think it's walking alongside people and allowing them to grieve that there's certain things that you went to college for that now a chatbot or an AI agent is going to replace that. Somebody is working 20 minutes from where I passed her to build something that could possibly replace part of what you do, Sam.