Using AI? You’ll pay with your life.

I was in Boston last month.

Half for work, half for pleasure.

The Northeast’s an area I’ve never been, so I was excited to see what’s out there.

Much of the city’s a rustic hue. The sidewalk never seems to run out of brick. The buildings are also brick, unlike the ones back home, smushed together, shoulder to shoulder, like canned sardines.

I’d probably trade the beach for a walkable city. Don’t know how I’d fare with sub-zero weather.

I met a Colombian woman right in front of one of the many churches the city has.

I walked in front of her, said hello, and later that night we met up for an evening.

This is a moment where imposter syndrome typically kicks in for me.

Moments like these, when I see a lady that gives me a feeling, self-doubt creeps in even when I’ve experienced only positive outcomes.

Apparently, there are varying definitions of imposter syndrome.

Google says it’s the persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved.

Yet, I believe I deserve.

Another says it’s when individuals doubt their own skills despite evidence of success.

Yet, I’ve success.

Another says you’re a perfectionist and need whatever you do to be perfect — but you know you’re not perfect, since you’re new to this game of life, as we all are, and with that, you never get started — because you’re not perfect.

Imposter syndrome is mostly spoken about when it comes to work and hobbies.

Though, with how prevalent AI has become, and the integration of tech into what used to be reserved for community and connection, it’s my view we’re all going to start experiencing imposter syndrome for our humanness.

Further along the date, at the second bar — after a round of drinks, sitting close, then a round of mini golf — we’re sitting closer than before, in a rust-colored, c-shaped booth, where she asks:

“So, do you always walk up to women?”

Not as much as I want, but yes, this is how I meet women.

Honesty will get you far, in my view.

But back to the imposter syndrome for our humanness, I think we’re close, if not already in the thick of it, where AI is bleeding into how us humans will interact with each other.

Right now, a lot of filtering is done through screens, digesting others’ opinions and reviews, unknowingly (or willingly?) absorbing hundreds of ads daily — smarter algorithms will just allow us to ironically feel more in control until it’s time to walk outside.

Curiosity with AI was never an issue, because it has “all” the answers.

So, when in the presence of neanderthals who know nothing in comparison, curiosity evaporates into thin air — the very thing that makes us human.

It’s important to be reminded that we’re all students of life, figuring things out for the first time.

We all experience this humanness imposter syndrome to some degree.

We’re just getting a little rusty.

We’ll figure it out.

Through all the trying, the awkwardnesses, and the doubts we’ve to overcome, we’ll find a way to prove to ourselves that we can.

For the sake of all things human.

Or so I think,

George