When people talk about AI,
the conversation often starts with
“jobs that will be taken” or “skills that will be replaced.”
But personally, I have a slightly different sense of it.
AI is neither an enemy nor magic.
It feels closer to the body.
Think back to the first time you rode a bicycle.
Your leg strength didn’t change,
yet the distance you could travel suddenly expanded.
The way the scenery flowed past you changed,
and the act of “moving” itself became something else.
No one says you’re “cheating.”
A bicycle doesn’t steal your leg power—
it extends it.
AI feels similar.
Your thinking ability hasn’t suddenly increased a hundredfold.
Your sensibility hasn’t been replaced.
What has expanded is the reach of your thinking
and the speed of trial and error.
You can test ideas more often,
and step further forward without fearing failure.
This isn’t a replacement of ability.
It’s an extension of it.
Just as a person’s worth isn’t determined
by whether they can ride a bicycle,
the value of creative work isn’t decided
by whether AI is used or not.
But once you ride a bicycle,
you see a landscape you never saw while walking.
AI is the same.
There are views you can only see once you start using it.
What matters isn’t that you’ve become faster,
but where you’re trying to go.
A bicycle doesn’t choose your destination for you.
AI doesn’t either.
Direction still comes from the human.
What questions you ask.
Which subtle discomforts you notice.
Where you decide to stop.
In all of this, judgments close to bodily sensation remain.
Using AI may make creation feel easier.
But that doesn’t mean it becomes simple.
Just as being able to travel farther by bicycle
makes choosing a destination more demanding,
AI sharpens the weight of decision-making.
Where are you heading?
What do you want to see?
What do you want to bring back?
How you use AI ultimately feels close to
the question of how you want to live.
Do you treat it as part of your body,
or as a tool you observe from a distance?
Just like the bicycle once did,
AI quietly expands human possibility.
