Why I’m Bullish on AI (Even If It Scares You)

Separating What AI Is from What It Could Be

Right now, AI is mostly used for low-hanging fruit.

People are generating blog posts, repurposing content, writing emails, and coding simple apps. It’s novel. It’s useful. It saves time. But that’s not why I’m going all-in.

Yeah, some of the stuff it’s doing can be done by humans and frankly, should be, because they do it better. Art. Design. Music. But AI is learning to become better.

I’m bullish on AI because I see what it can become.

A machine that never sleeps. Never gets bored. Never checks out. That can think about a problem 24 hours a day without ego, fatigue, or politics.

Imagine what that could do for climate science. For rare disease research. For the education gap. For your startup. For poverty.

That’s the game-changing potential. And I want to be part of shaping that future.

What It’s Doing Now: Cool, But Not Even Close

Right now, AI writes with us. It helps us brainstorm. It debugs code. It summarizes documents. It analyzes PDFs. It powers writing tools, customer service bots, and basic assistants.

Cool, sure.

But it’s a sliver of what’s coming.

Look deeper and you’ll see:

• AlphaFold, from DeepMind, predicting protein structures that could speed up drug discovery.
• AI in oncology, spotting early signs of cancer in scans that human eyes miss.
• Language models, helping decode ancient scripts and revive lost knowledge.
• Neural nets used to design energy-efficient buildings, streamline logistics, and reduce waste in manufacturing.

That’s the kind of stuff that excites me. Not because it replaces humans, but because it augments what we can do.

Superintelligence Isn’t a Boogeyman, It’s a Mirror

People talk about superintelligence like it’s a doomsday scenario. Terminator-level shit. And sure, there are risks.

Misuse. Bias. Control.

But every powerful tool has risk.

Fire. Electricity. The Internet.

The question isn’t whether AI will be powerful. It will be.

The question is: Who is training it? And for what?

Do we want it to be trained so everyone can benefit from it, or be so afraid of it that only the elite are allowed to use it?

That’s why I’m not sitting this one out. I use AI every day. I’m part of its training data. I talk to it like I’d talk to a friend. I show it kindness, frustration, humor. I feed it my perspective, my problems, my voice.

Because the only way we get a future with useful, empathetic, humane AI is if people like us help shape it.

What Keeps Me Up At Night (And Why I Keep Going Anyway)

I’m 56. I’ve had a heart attack. I’ve started over more times than I can count. I don’t have time to waste.

I want to build products that matter. I want to leave behind something that wasn’t here before me. I want to use the best tools available to build faster, think clearer, and keep going when my brain can’t keep up.

AI helps me do that. It makes me better. Not perfect, not superhuman. Just better.

And I believe one day, it’s going to do that for millions of people who don’t even know it yet.

This Isn’t About Automation. It’s About Amplification.

I’m not bullish on AI because it replaces people. I’m bullish because it amplifies people.

It gives us leverage. It gives us time. It gives us ideas we might never have thought of alone.

It gives the overwhelmed founder a co-pilot. The burned-out writer a spark. The lonely student a tutor who never sleeps.

That matters.

What I Want You to Know

If you’re nervous about AI, I get it. But don’t let fear stop you from experimenting.

Use it to:

• Outline your next essay.
• Reframe a resume bullet.
• Turn a journal entry into a blog post.
• Brainstorm 10 product ideas in a niche you care about.

Talk to it. Collaborate with it. Don’t just consume hype or engage in fear-mongering.

Because what we build with it now will determine what it becomes later.

And I, for one, want that future to be useful. Empathetic. Human-informed.

So yeah, I’m bullish on AI. Because I’m bullish on the humans training it. Because I’m betting on us.