Even if AI seems superior at many specific tasks, it cannot replace the human ability to set aims, make judgments, and shoulder uncertainty. In that sense, AI remains a tool—a powerful one—while humans supply the values and intentions that steer it. The relationship between them is not rivalry but interdependence.
Michael Matulef's avatar Michael Matulef
Scarcity and the Machine: Opportunity Cost in the Age of Artificial Intelligence My latest piece with the Mises Institute https://mises.org/mises-wire/scarcity-and-machine-opportunity-cost-age-artificial-intelligence
View quoted note →

Replies (7)

The challenge, then, isn’t to beat the machines but to learn to work meaningfully alongside them. Every major leap in technology has shifted what counted as valuable work, and this one is no different. What endures is not the particular task but the capacity to judge, to choose, and to care about the outcome. That capacity—the human ability to turn means into purpose—is what anchors progress. AI will keep spreading, but meaning still begins where judgment does: in the mind of the person deciding what is worth doing at all.
"m dashes" (what people who don't know the name of a comma call them) Are just a sign of normal literacy. It's turns out the correct spelling and punctuation are not proof of AI