AI Isn’t the Enemy. It’s a Mirror.
Sometimes it magnifies, sometimes it just reflects.
We tend, especially in the public space, to talk about Artificial Intelligence as an enemy from another galaxy. An entity in its own right, with its own intentions, capable of stealing our jobs, creativity or even our identity.
But what if we stopped for a moment and looked at AI as it is, not how the headlines in the press scare us?
As Ethan Mollick explains in the book “Co-Intelligence”, AI is not a conscience, but a partner of ours, an algorithmic “co-worker” that takes what we offer it and returns, in one form or another, what we can control and shape. “AI is not an entity with its own agenda.
It’s a tool, just like paper, the computer, or “Google,” Mollick says.
When a tool is misused, the fault is not the hammer.
Feeling and Story: What AI Lacks
When you create, you feel. When you innovate, your story matters.
The essential difference between humans and AI is not the processing capacity. It is the ability to feel.
The biographical book dedicated to Stephen Hawking makes it clear: man, even when his body is imprisoned in a wheelchair, can leave a cosmic mark on the world. But beyond the equations, it’s about the story. Of a life that defied physical and intellectual limits, because, as the authors say, “his mind remained free, even if his body was closed.”
This is the emotion that no AI will be able to generate: the moment of the breakthrough, that “Evrika!” that comes after months or years of work, doubts and passion. It’s not a line of code. It is an experience.
AI Is Useful. But It’s Not You.
AI is the smart watch. You are the Swiss watch.
A smartwatch shows you your pulse, but it doesn’t feel it. It records your sleep, but it doesn’t live it. Instead, an automatic Swiss watch is refined, painstakingly constructed, with mechanisms that reflect centuries of engineering. This is the relationship between AI and humans: AI is useful, but it has no soul. We do.
AI as a Business Multiplier
In business, AI is not an “upgrade”. It’s a multiplier.
At LifeinCloud, we use AI to help support teams, analyze data, make faster backups, and better respond to incidents. But AI is no substitute for decision, strategy, or empathy. He’s an assistant who doesn’t sleep, but he needs to be trained.
And yes, LifeinCloud services and solutions, whether we are talking about public cloud for accessibility, private cloud for control, or the LumaDock platform for DevOps and freelancers,
integrate automatic intelligence. But the decision is up to the man. You choose what you want to build. AI just helps you do it faster and better.
The Future Belongs to Humans with Better Tools
If Stephen Hawking was able to redefine the way we understand the universe with a single finger and a voice computer, then surely we, the rest of us, can build better companies, applications and services, if we correctly understand what helps us and what defines us.
And AI, well used, does not replace us. It amplifies us. Like a microphone that transmits the voice further, but the voice is ours.
