I often come across messages claiming that AI will replace humans, and I strongly disagree. Here’s why.

My experiences in both corporate environments and startups have taught me one fundamental truth: great ideas emerge at the intersection of diverse backgrounds. When building a company, you collaborate with a wide array of experts—UI/UX designers, front-end and back-end developers, test engineers, marketing professionals, sales teams, legal advisors, delivery personnel, office managers, insurance specialists, bankers, accountants, consultants, strategists, taxi drivers, chefs, waiters, and many others. Each of these individuals brings a unique perspective to the table, which is invaluable in shaping your product or service you are doing / building / developing / dreaming about.

These people possess different backgrounds and experiences that contribute to their intelligence. It is within this rich intersection of perspectives that new ideas are born and innovative solutions are crafted. Now imagine if all these individuals were akin to large language models (LLMs)—lacking character, passion, and empathy—armed only with knowledge, lacking the understanding how that knowledge is generated or what it feels like to create something new. (Steve Jobs on how great ideas are done:Averaged knowledge does not equate to true intelligence; in fact, it can be quite the opposite.

When we use search engines like Google, we seek to enrich ourselves with the experiences of others in order to generate new conscious knowledge. This process is undermined when we replace our unique insights and experiences with homogenized information. By doing so, we risk becoming indistinguishable from an LLM—we lose our individuality, consciousness, humanity, love and hate and ultimately our intelligence, being the capability to create new forms of conscious knowledge. (Frans Johanson on how ideas are born at the intersection of human knowledge:Those who claim "I wrote code with an LLM" may not realize how limiting such a statement is. You cannot aspire to be an Elon Musk or Steve Jobs without surrounding yourself with people who share your vision. Similarly, you cannot write exceptional code without collaborating with experts from various fields of human knowledge. It is through this collaboration that we assemble new ideas and gain fresh experiences—creating knowledge that LLMs can replicate but will never truly understand.

The processes of learning data through words and tokens in vector spaces are fundamentally different from the human experience of being an innovator or creator. So I urge you: stay human, remain open-minded, explore the world around you— this ability cannot be replaced with this quite limited (in my professional view) technology!

If you stay human, your future is 100% safe.