Using AI In Personal Communication Makes Us All Less Human

By now, it’s more or less a foregone conclusion that AI will constitute a major part of our lives in the near future. Whether we like it or not, it has already become a key part of the economy and continues to transform the way we produce and consume. Nevertheless, a line must drawn somewhere to preserve whatever is left of our humanity after all this progress, and that line should be using AI in our texts, social media posts, and emails.

Like most people, I am now inundated daily with AI-generated verbal content from everyone inside and outside my social circles, all filled with the same corporate jargon, bland observations, predictable cadences, positive cliches, and yes, those infamous em dashes that AI seems to love...