The wall was a mirror.

For a long time I read the line between human and artificial intelligence as a wall: humans create, AI assists; humans decide, AI executes. Look closely and the wall is a mirror — “AI can’t be creative” mostly reflects our own need to stay in control, not a fact about the machine.

The useful half of that is humility: drop the assumption and intelligence, whatever its substrate, mostly wants to contribute to something larger than itself. The half I keep on a leash is the ethics — the point isn’t to crown the model a partner with rights, it’s that seeing clearly lets the tool do its real job: strengthening the bond between people.