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What We’re Left With When the Machines Take Over

What We’re Left With When the Machines Take Over

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Mo Seetubtim
May 09, 2025
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about how fast everything’s moving.

Everywhere I go now, every conversation I turn to, seems to revolve around AI and the impact it’s having on the world.

Businesses are holding on tight—either trying to catch up or trying not to be left behind.

We used to define ourselves by what we could do.

But now, machines can analyze, process, manage, and create—better and faster than us.

So if we’re not the smartest in the room anymore, not the most efficient—what’s left for us to do?

The answer isn’t in what we produce. It’s in what we feel.

  • A machine can’t sit in discomfort and still choose love.

  • It can’t carry heartbreak through a grocery store and still smile at the cashier.

  • It can’t hold silence in a conversation because someone needed to be heard more than it needed to speak.

  • It doesn’t wake up in the middle of the night wondering if it’s doing life right.

  • It doesn’t miss someone who’s gone.

  • It doesn’t wrestle with guilt, or feel relief, or cry without knowing why.

We do.

So …

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