We have been trying to win a race we were never meant to run.
For years now, the conversation about artificial intelligence has circled a particular fear: that humans are becoming obsolete. Too slow. Too emotional. Too inefficient. That the machine will outpace us — and perhaps already has — in every domain that used to make us feel useful.
But I want to offer a different frame. The machine will always win the efficiency race. That is not the problem we should be solving.
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