You know what makes me most excited about artificial intelligence?

It’s when I see viral posts on Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever platform—people outing others for using AI. Someone includes the wrong kind of prompt in a research paper, and suddenly… it’s a scandal. It’s a rejection. People get really, really upset.

And honestly? That’s the moment I start paying attention.

It’s uncomfortable. It’s weird. But these uncomfortable, weird moments?

They’re almost always signs of a massive shift.

It’s the same feeling people had with Galileo and the telescope. That thing only magnified by 3 to 10 times, and still—he looked at the sky, and people freaked out. He didn’t benefit from it. But the world changed.

I remember when people had to switch from typewriters to WordPerfect.

It made everyone furious. Teachers didn’t want to learn a new system.

It felt like everything was falling apart.

Same thing with Uber and taxis.

With Airbnb and the hotel industry.

With Napster and the entire music business.

People were outraged—until they weren’t.

People got upset about electricity.

They got upset about disposable diapers.

They got upset about the horseless carriage.

They got upset about Spotify, about Google Docs, about Grammarly.

Heck, even the microwave was controversial when it showed up.

We don’t like transition. We like control.

And so here we are again—freaking out over artificial intelligence.

But if you do realize it, you can stop blaming the wrong thing.

You can stop calling AI “cheating” and start asking:

What is this discomfort trying to tell me?

Because this shift we’re going through—it’s bigger than research.

It’s going to hit physicians.

Architects.

Manual laborers.

Construction workers.

Teachers.

Therapists.

Probably even dog groomers.

I’m not saying it’s perfect.

I’m not saying it won’t replace some things.

But here’s what I am saying:

The laws won’t lead us.

They’ll follow.

Just like they always do.

And no—we’re not going back.

We never do.

You don’t un-invent the car.

You don’t un-send the email.

You don’t stop the music once it’s streaming.

So maybe—just maybe—it’s time we stop being afraid.

Maybe we stop calling it cheating and start asking:

What would happen if we embraced this shift?

If we leveraged it?

If we used AI to build things we actually want?

To make our lives a little easier?

To multiply what we already do well?

These moments—the ones that make you uncomfortable, make you hide, make you fight—

they’re just growing pains.

We’ve had them before.

We’ll have them again.

You don’t have to love it.

But you might want to pay attention.

Because we’re not going back.