Personally, I like to craft. I like to build things using my own hands and cleverness. I sometimes wondered that if I could print everything with a 3-D printer, why not just do it that way. I could make things faster. I could mass produce them. They would be a lot nicer looking. What possible reason could I have to continue making them by hand? And yet, I wanted to make them by hand, but this bothered me because it didn’t seem reasonable…until I realized what art is all about, and enjoying crafting was a perfectly good enough reason to justify this. I have fun crafting. My creations make me feel proud of myself. My creations mean something more to me than if I just 3-D printed it, and I bet they’d mean more to others too. I mean, creating the structure in a computer takes skill too; don’t get me wrong, but at the end of the day, you didn’t build it with your own hands; your own imperfect hands. You let a machine build it perfectly. You sacrificed your enjoyment to have a perfectly built craft when in reality what was most important to you was the fun you’d have experienced while building it.

There’s something special about having a skill, regardless if it’s necessary to have or not, and I fear that persons and civilization are going to be losing these precious skills. Of course, a good question to ask is if it really matters if we lose these skills. I think it does. For if we lose these skills that have made us champions of creativity, I fear that we will lose our belief in the power of humanity as well. Imagine if everyone forgets how to play music. Oh sure they can come up with great ideas, and they can still have A.I. make the music, but say good-bye to live shows in which music stars are actually playing the music. This is among the kinds of things that I fear most about A.I., and this is what I think everyone should be afraid of; not computers taking over the world.

I honestly feel that with A.I. taking over so much of the work that humans once did, humanity is being degraded. I know that seems a bit dramatic, but I think that’s only because we’re in the first stages of the artificial intelligence takeover. Decades from now, I wouldn’t be surprised if what I fear starts becoming true.

You know, I think I have another example that fits in well with what I’m talking about now. Hopefully this helps to convey what I’m trying to express. I’ve had quite a few children’s books illustrated at the time of writing this article, and during the process of each one, the illustrator will send me proofs for me to decide if they’re on the right track, and when they give me the finished results, I still often have revisions that I’d like done after seeing them. In addition to that, the more cartoony illustrations are shown to me as line art before color is added.

Personally, I like to craft. I like to build things using my own hands and cleverness. I sometimes wondered that if I could print everything with a 3-D printer, why not just do it that way. I could make things faster. I could mass produce them. They would be a lot nicer looking. What possible reason could I have to continue making them by hand? And yet, I wanted to make them by hand, but this bothered me because it didn’t seem reasonable…until I realized what art is all about, and enjoying crafting was a perfectly good enough reason to justify this. I have fun crafting. My creations make me feel proud of myself. My creations mean something more to me than if I just 3-D printed it, and I bet they’d mean more to others too. I mean, creating the structure in a computer takes skill too; don’t get me wrong, but at the end of the day, you didn’t build it with your own hands; your own imperfect hands. You let a machine build it perfectly. You sacrificed your enjoyment to have a perfectly built craft when in reality what was most important to you was the fun you’d have experienced while building it.

There’s something special about having a skill, regardless if it’s necessary to have or not, and I fear that persons and civilization are going to be losing these precious skills. Of course, a good question to ask is if it really matters if we lose these skills. I think it does. For if we lose these skills that have made us champions of creativity, I fear that we will lose our belief in the power of humanity as well. Imagine if everyone forgets how to play music. Oh sure they can come up with great ideas, and they can still have A.I. make the music, but say good-bye to live shows in which music stars are actually playing the music. This is among the kinds of things that I fear most about A.I., and this is what I think everyone should be afraid of; not computers taking over the world.

I honestly feel that with A.I. taking over so much of the work that humans once did, humanity is being degraded. I know that seems a bit dramatic, but I think that’s only because we’re in the first stages of the artificial intelligence takeover. Decades from now, I wouldn’t be surprised if what I fear starts becoming true.

You know, I think I have another example that fits in well with what I’m talking about now. Hopefully this helps to convey what I’m trying to express. I’ve had quite a few children’s books illustrated at the time of writing this article, and during the process of each one, the illustrator will send me proofs for me to decide if they’re on the right track, and when they give me the finished results, I still often have revisions that I’d like done after seeing them. In addition to that, the more cartoony illustrations are shown to me as line art before color is added.

Personally, I like to craft. I like to build things using my own hands and cleverness. I sometimes wondered that if I could print everything with a 3-D printer, why not just do it that way. I could make things faster. I could mass produce them. They would be a lot nicer looking. What possible reason could I have to continue making them by hand? And yet, I wanted to make them by hand, but this bothered me because it didn’t seem reasonable…until I realized what art is all about, and enjoying crafting was a perfectly good enough reason to justify this. I have fun crafting. My creations make me feel proud of myself. My creations mean something more to me than if I just 3-D printed it, and I bet they’d mean more to others too. I mean, creating the structure in a computer takes skill too; don’t get me wrong, but at the end of the day, you didn’t build it with your own hands; your own imperfect hands. You let a machine build it perfectly. You sacrificed your enjoyment to have a perfectly built craft when in reality what was most important to you was the fun you’d have experienced while building it.

There’s something special about having a skill, regardless if it’s necessary to have or not, and I fear that persons and civilization are going to be losing these precious skills. Of course, a good question to ask is if it really matters if we lose these skills. I think it does. For if we lose these skills that have made us champions of creativity, I fear that we will lose our belief in the power of humanity as well. Imagine if everyone forgets how to play music. Oh sure they can come up with great ideas, and they can still have A.I. make the music, but say good-bye to live shows in which music stars are actually playing the music. This is among the kinds of things that I fear most about A.I., and this is what I think everyone should be afraid of; not computers taking over the world.

I honestly feel that with A.I. taking over so much of the work that humans once did, humanity is being degraded. I know that seems a bit dramatic, but I think that’s only because we’re in the first stages of the artificial intelligence takeover. Decades from now, I wouldn’t be surprised if what I fear starts becoming true.

You know, I think I have another example that fits in well with what I’m talking about now. Hopefully this helps to convey what I’m trying to express. I’ve had quite a few children’s books illustrated at the time of writing this article, and during the process of each one, the illustrator will send me proofs for me to decide if they’re on the right track, and when they give me the finished results, I still often have revisions that I’d like done after seeing them. In addition to that, the more cartoony illustrations are shown to me as line art before color is added.

Personally, I like to craft. I like to build things using my own hands and cleverness. I sometimes wondered that if I could print everything with a 3-D printer, why not just do it that way. I could make things faster. I could mass produce them. They would be a lot nicer looking. What possible reason could I have to continue making them by hand? And yet, I wanted to make them by hand, but this bothered me because it didn’t seem reasonable…until I realized what art is all about, and enjoying crafting was a perfectly good enough reason to justify this. I have fun crafting. My creations make me feel proud of myself. My creations mean something more to me than if I just 3-D printed it, and I bet they’d mean more to others too. I mean, creating the structure in a computer takes skill too; don’t get me wrong, but at the end of the day, you didn’t build it with your own hands; your own imperfect hands. You let a machine build it perfectly. You sacrificed your enjoyment to have a perfectly built craft when in reality what was most important to you was the fun you’d have experienced while building it.

There’s something special about having a skill, regardless if it’s necessary to have or not, and I fear that persons and civilization are going to be losing these precious skills. Of course, a good question to ask is if it really matters if we lose these skills. I think it does. For if we lose these skills that have made us champions of creativity, I fear that we will lose our belief in the power of humanity as well. Imagine if everyone forgets how to play music. Oh sure they can come up with great ideas, and they can still have A.I. make the music, but say good-bye to live shows in which music stars are actually playing the music. This is among the kinds of things that I fear most about A.I., and this is what I think everyone should be afraid of; not computers taking over the world.

I honestly feel that with A.I. taking over so much of the work that humans once did, humanity is being degraded. I know that seems a bit dramatic, but I think that’s only because we’re in the first stages of the artificial intelligence takeover. Decades from now, I wouldn’t be surprised if what I fear starts becoming true.

You know, I think I have another example that fits in well with what I’m talking about now. Hopefully this helps to convey what I’m trying to express. I’ve had quite a few children’s books illustrated at the time of writing this article, and during the process of each one, the illustrator will send me proofs for me to decide if they’re on the right track, and when they give me the finished results, I still often have revisions that I’d like done after seeing them. In addition to that, the more cartoony illustrations are shown to me as line art before color is added.