AI can’t replace people in a room together reading poetry.
AI can’t replace people gathered in a café making music.
AI can’t replace the artist’s open studio where you see the mess as well as the work.
AI can’t replace the show a local producer puts together with local aerialists and dancers.
AI can’t replace the conversation at the pub.
AI can’t replace the hours of solitude or the hours of social observation that led to your exquisite short story.
AI can’t replace the meal improvised from what’s coming up in the garden.
AI can’t replace the flirtation, the encouragement, the gaffe, the sizing up, the friendliness, the uncomfortableness, the work, the play, the adventure of being human in person.
AI can only replace what’s remote, what’s digital, what’s data-driven, what’s on the screen, what’s in the byte-stream.
Maybe we should all be doing more of what AI can’t replace.