AI is not the problem: We were already a machine, article by Acharya Prashant.
人工智能揭示了现代生活的机械性与虚伪性。人们沉迷于智能设备,在工作中缺乏真正的人类价值。AI像一面镜子,暴露了我们对重复性、模仿性的依赖。诗歌创作等人类活动也被证明可以由机器完成,这迫使我们反思什么是真正的人类智慧与创造力。 2026-1-21 14:51:45 Author: www.reddit.com(查看原文) 阅读量:1 收藏

Originally published in "The Sunday Guardian."

AI does not enslave us; it reveals how ready we were.

The notification glows on your screen, and your thumb moves before you have chosen to move it. Swipe, tap, scroll, again and again, hours melting into nothing while you tell yourself you are using the device, though the device appears to be using you. You call this the age of intelligence, yet you have never been more asleep. A great fear has gripped the world: that artificial intelligence will take our jobs, replace our skills, render us obsolete. But notice who is afraid. Not the rare poet who writes from genuine anguish, not the rare scientist driven by authentic wonder, not the rare teacher who transforms through presence. These are few. The rest sense, perhaps for the first time, that their work never required a human being at all. If a machine can replace you, you were already replaceable. The question is whether you ever showed up.

AI has arrived not as a villain but as a mirror, reflecting back exactly how mechanical our lives have become. The tragedy is not that machines are growing intelligent; it is that we have been living unintelligently, and now the fact is exposed.

The Mirror

AI has no consciousness. It processes data at such granular levels that it appears sentient, but it is not. The responses feel human; they are not. They are programmed reactions, sophisticated imitations assembled from patterns. It can produce impressive language, but it has no stake in what it says, no inner cost for being wrong, no responsibility to live with consequences. And yet it writes better than most humans, and that is the scandal: not that machines have become clever, but that human beings have become so mechanical. The ego, that false sense of “I am this, I am that,” survives by repetition; it imitates, borrows, assembles from the known, because originality would require a dissolution it cannot afford. AI has arrived to display, with uncomfortable clarity, that much of what we call human activity requires no humanness at all. It requires only the mechanical functioning of an ego protecting its territory.

Consider poetry. You tell an AI engine to write a poem for your beloved, and it produces something acceptable: rhyming, emotional, competent. How did it manage this? It stitched together fragments from a million poems, identified what works, calculated what pleases, and assembled the result. And this is also how the ego composes. It plagiarizes, imitates, rearranges, because the ego has no access to the original; it knows only what it has accumulated. The ego is a storehouse, and AI is a larger storehouse; the difference is of degree, not of kind. Who taught AI that poetry could be written this way? We did, because that is how we have been writing: from accumulation, not from the emptiness where real creation begins. If a machine can write a poem for your beloved, perhaps it is time to ask what poetry really means to you.


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