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.