AI is a tool, much like a hammer, car or calculator. You wouldn’t criticize someone for using a pulley to lift heavy weights, or a car to travel long distances. Rather the opposite, you would call them smart.

Yet somehow, when someone uses AI to write their mails, reports or drafts, everyone jumps on to shame them.

Is this hypocrisy rooted in a deep-seated need to protect human exceptionalism?

Civilization has always evolved by embracing tools that challenge existing norms. AI, like the agricultural plow, the printing press, and the steam engine, is a tool with transformative potential. Its success—or failure—depends on our willingness to question outdated notions of morality and adapt to new realities.

As Descartes and Newton showed, survival requires intellectual courage. Just as early societies redefined ethics for the survival race, we must now confront AI not as a threat but as an opportunity to redefine what it means to be human in the 21st century. After all, progress is rarely about clinging to the past—it’s about daring to imagine a better future.