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The resistance phase always feels permanent. It never is.

Concerns about tech and AI deserve serious conversations, not dismissal.

The only real choice left is whether to be on the freight train or under it.

There I sat, alone in my home office, speaking on camera while an unnamed AI entity interviewed me for a remote writing job.

You genuinely cannot make this up. “She” was poised, thoughtful, and her questions surprisingly perceptive. I answered in one take because I am, after all, a voice actor as well as a copywriter and blogger, and take great pride in how I sound right off the bat.

When it was over, I realized I wasn’t even rattled. That, in itself, felt like a milestone.

You see, I am of a generation that used phone books, paper maps, and submitted my work to newsrooms that smelled like ink and ambition. I watched as many of my peers responded to the advent of technology the way people respond to a car accident — with a long, horrified stare, followed by an insistence that someone should do something. I get it. What I can no longer do is share it.

Here is what I keep coming back to: the freight train left the station without asking for a show of hands. The only real choice left is whether to be on it or under it. (And no, this is not written by AI).

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