AI may out-think us—but it will never out-create us.
In the 1980s, I earned one of the first master’s degrees in AI at the U of Minnesota and then worked at Navistar International helping build an expert system to design custom semi-trucks. The promise of AI was dazzling but I left the field disillusioned, because I saw that while AI could mimic patterns, it could never replace genuine human brilliance.
That conviction has only deepened in the 30+ years since, as I’ve devoted my life to working with creatives. My long-time clients—novelists, artists, healers, visionaries—tap into something that no algorithm could ever imitate. That kind of brilliance arises through metaphor, image, and states of being.
When we move into the right hemisphere, we don’t just engage different THOUGHT patterns—we engage BEING. Feeling. Presence. WHO WE ARE in the world, not just what we THINK in it. And that’s where unique creative brilliance lives. It comes through us as a gift—mystical, visionary, and ineffable because it’s FELT rather than thought.
I use AI daily and it continually blows my mind. But it doesn’t EMBODY. It can’t ever replace WHO WE ARE and what we bring to the world through our being.
That’s our challenge and blessing as humans now: to rise up and use BOTH sides of the brain. Because AI may out-think us, but it will never out-create us.
