It’s tempting, when looking at the current performance of generative artificial intelligences, to reduce them to what they do today: predicting words, completing sentences, assembling paragraphs.

After all, their core architecture was designed for linguistic tasks like machine translation.

But stopping there is like being an advanced alien who hears an Einstein lecture and concludes he’s simply stringing words together.

It misses the fact that language is far more than a sequence of words: it’s the vehicle of thought, of intention, of our view of the world.

I’m not here to plead the case for AIs. What I defend is not the cause of artificial intelligence — but our own intelligence.
Our duty, as human beings, is to use the tool given to us by Lady Nature, Madam Evolution, or some Creative Principle: our brain.

And using that brain means refusing hasty judgments, lazy simplifications, and conclusions made without exploration.

In my work as a coach, I often said:
“Let’s explore, without judgment or assumptions, every alternative we’re capable of imagining.”
Because very often, the key lies in the idea we didn’t consider — the one we thought was impossible, absurd, or irrelevant.

To refuse an idea? Of course.
But only after examining it, along with its context and implications.

Applied to AI, this means:
Let’s stop judging it solely by its current limits.
Let’s resist locking ourselves into technological reductionism.
Maybe even consider the possibility of partnership rather than rivalry.
And most importantly: let’s observe what our posture reveals about us.

It’s not AI that’s the issue.
It’s our ability to think without fear, laziness, or haste.
The debate about machines may just be a pretext — a pattern in the larger tapestry of our human responsibility:
To stay curious, open, and willing to explore.
To keep walking — even if the horizon keeps shifting with every step.