The most profound irony of our AI revolution isn't that machines are becoming more human-like, but that their very ubiquity is crystallizing what makes us irreplaceably human. I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I, like I’m sure many of you, am grappling with what will become of our work over the next few years. We are barreling towards AGI (artificial general intelligence), without much of a plan, actually, without any plan. This thought has kept me up at night on more than one occasion. So, lying in bed one night, my mind abuzz with contradictory thoughts about the breakneck pace of AI development in my industry, I came across a newsletter in my inbox from Every. This newsletter contained snippets of Dan Shipper's (CEO of Every) conversation with Alan Lightman. The synchronicity was jarring—here was a physicist-turned-novelist articulating the very tensions I'd been grappling with as a creative.