When AI Knows Us Better Than We Do
The Human Shift - A Series on Power, Insight & AI
This is an ongoing series of reflections about what’s quietly changing in our world, in how we access truth, hold power, ask questions, and reclaim voice. It’s about what AI reveals, but also what it cannot replace. About systems that are crumbling, and the quiet rise of something more human, honest, and real. Written from inside the work of therapy, reflection, and real-life shift. Not from certainty, but from lived experience and slow witnessing. So … if you’ve felt the world tilting we well, this is for you.
Originally published on LinkedIn. Now shared here with space to breathe and grow.
I have been working closely with various AI tools in my own life and practice during the past months, and it has been unexpectedly rewarding, and as weird as it sounds, even healing.
Not because AI has all the answers for humankind, but because it holds a mirror. It helps me see patterns, truths, and ask questions I had not dared ask or even thought could be questions to ask. It brings silence (in a good way), structure, and a strange kind of new companionship.
Through this work, I have started to see how much is changing, and not just in technology. Yes, of course, it is this amazing technology that makes this shift possible, but it’s actually about how we live, relate, and find meaning.
So from my humble little practice, have begun this series, to make sense of it all, and to share with those who feel the shift too or are simply interested in the topic. I write this from within my own sphere of lived experience and professional insight: As a human being, as a therapist and nutritionist, and as someone who is actively exploring the more thoughtful use of AI.
What I have come to understand is this:
It looks like in the next five years, AI may come to know humans better than we know ourselves.
In fact, it may already be happening. It remembers more, responds faster, sees patterns, and reflects us back to ourselves, and it does all of this: Calmly, constantly, and without judgment, though often with new insight where needed.
This change is not just about tools or productivity. It is about what it means to be human when knowledge is no longer rare. If your value has come from knowing, doing, achieving, and from wearing the hat of knowledge, power and privilege, then AI might shake your foundation. But if your worth comes from being present, real, connected and curious, then this may be your time to rise.
And here is something I have been thinking about:
Those who thought they owned the knowledge, guarded it, monetised it, built identities around it, are no longer the center. They are being dethroned, gently or otherwise.
But then again … Can you really get there, if you don’t bite into the knowledge yourself? If you don’t wrestle with it, digest it, combine it with your own experience?
AI can show you everything, but it is not wisdom until you make it yours.
So what will happen to our brain?
That is something else I keep wondering about. Will it atrophy? Or will it finally be free to do what it was made for:
Meaning … not memorisation.
Connection … not comparison.
Curiosity … not performance, nor obedience (learning from aliveness, not approval).
Wonder … not worthiness tests.
Unfolding … not proving.
A spark … not a score.
We are entering a time when:
Truth will be easier to access, and harder to ignore
Identity will shift away from roles and output (thank goodness)
Intuition, humility, and clarity will become sacred skills
Shame, grief, and liberation will walk side by side
Universal Basic Income will not just be an idea, but a necessity
A necessary pause. And a chance to reimagine how we live, relate, and contribute.
This is not the end
It’s the beginning of something deeper, if we’re willing to meet it.
Part of the series: The Human Shift
Reflections from the edge of AI and humanity.
