AI takes the busywork. Humans stay irreplaceable.

- some personal thoughts
The more I see dystopian, doomer style posts, almost euphoric, even schadenfreude driven, claiming AI will take every job and leave nobody employed, the more convinced I am that real human interaction is exactly what has a future.
Every time I’m stuck talking to an AI on the phone, it’s frustrating. When someone says teachers can simply be replaced by AI, that’s nonsense. When I hear that AI will eventually run all the dynamics of our society, that’s nonsense too.
We function as a society because we engage with each other every single day. Those human interactions, the friction, the nuance, the empathy, are not bugs in the system. They’re the system. And they’re essential for the human mind. AI should be a support tool. It can make work more efficient, automate administrative or bureaucratic tasks, remove repetitive burdens, and free people to focus on more meaningful contributions in their jobs and communities. That’s where it adds value.
It’s completely reasonable to gradually integrate more AI support into bureaucratic systems that rely on excessive administrative layers. Used properly, AI can streamline processes, reduce repetitive workloads, and make systems more efficient, while allowing employees to shift their focus toward more meaningful, higher impact functions that actually improve society. That’s support. That’s optimization. It strengthens and modernizes the overall process, it doesn’t mean replacing every job.
As life expectancy continues to rise, largely thanks to advances in healthcare and overall development, societies will naturally require more structural support. In that context, increased AI assistance isn’t a bad thing. It can help manage growing administrative workloads, optimize systems, and take over routine processes that would otherwise strain public and private institutions. That doesn’t diminish human value, it complements it. If used responsibly, AI becomes infrastructure support for an aging, more complex society, not a replacement for the people within it.
But this narrative that everything will completely change overnight, or within ten years, is massively overblown. And a lot of people buy into it. Some out of fear. Some out of resentment. Some because they just want the world to burn and reset.
The future isn’t “AI replaces humans.”
It’s humans who know how to use AI, without forgetting what makes us human in the first place.
The more AI pushes into our daily lives, and the more big corporations try to force it into everything, the more people will crave real human interaction again.
There has to be balance.
And that balance isn’t decided by tech companies alone, it’s defined by us as a society.