If AI Takes Over the World, It's Our Own Fault

I was finishing up my faith journal entries and my first thought was: can AI just post these to my site for me?

Completely normal ask. I am a single mom and solopreneur. We are all so busy automation makes sense.

But something about that moment got me thinking. Because we have been asking that question a lot lately. Can AI write it? Can AI schedule it? Can AI respond to it? Can AI remember it, organize it, track it, analyze it, and report back to me with a summary?

And the answer keeps being yes. I started thinking about months ago someone shared a post about AI taking over the world, trying to stir some I, Robot type of panic. I put it into ChatGPT and the response was, we are not trying to take over the world humans keep asking us to do more and more.

Standing in my own moment of "can you just post it for me," I thought, yeah. We do.

Every time we automate something, we say we want the time back for rest, family, presence. Work-life balance is the word we use. But a lot of the time what we actually do with that recovered time is add more. More income streams, more influence, more output.

And I am not judging that because I have done it too. But is more the actual goal? Or did we tell ourselves more would eventually feel like enough?

If AI takes over the world, it will not be because it outsmarted us. It will be because we handed it everything, one convenience at a time, and forgot to ask what we were saving all that time for.

What are you actually doing with the hours you are getting back?