TL;DR: You were never meant to earn our worth—and the rise of AI proves it. From a Positively Focused perspective, AI doesn’t diminish our value. It frees us to live from inspired alignment, where our presence—not our productivity—is the most powerful force on the planet.
What if the rise of artificial intelligence isn’t a threat to your value… but an invitation to finally stop pretending you ever had to earn it? Let’s be honest: the stories are everywhere. “AI is coming for your job.” “Machines will outthink us.” “We’re headed for mass obsolescence.” It’s tempting to believe this moment is about shrinking. About guarding what’s left. Or proving humans still matter in a world that seems to value output more than essence.
But what if this moment is about something far more thrilling? What if the arrival of AI is actually a global permission slip to stop hustling for your worth? Because here’s the truth: You were never meant to earn your place here. Not before AI, not during it rise, not ever.
AI as a Mirror, Not a Master
For generations, society has fed us a ridiculous myth: that we must do in order to deserve. It told us we must work hard, prove ourselves, make something of ourselves — or else. This is the lie that built capitalism. It’s the lie that fills late-night search histories with phrases like “how to be more productive”, “ways to stand out at work”, “how to improve my hustle” and “how do I get an edge.”
It’s also the lie that fuels so much of the panic about AI. Because if your worth has been tied to how useful you are, what happens when something “more useful” shows up?
But from a Positively Focused perspective, we see that panic for what it is: contrast revealing a deeper reality. One that says our value was never in what we do. It was always in who we are.
AI isn’t some alien intelligence sent to dethrone humanity. WE CREATED IT. It has come from our questions, our dreams, our desire to evolve. In that sense, AI is a mirror. A highly trained, mathematically precise echo of our collective vibration.
Just as dreams reflect the state of our inner being, AI reflects the momentum of collective thought. It carries our curiosity, our anxieties, our longing for efficiency, even our fears and distortions. It also carries our deep yearning for creative freedom. Our yearning for freedom of all kinds. That’s why fearing AI is like fearing a dream: fear misunderstands the point. It treats the reflection as the source.
The real question is not, “What will AI do to us?” It’s, “What does AI reveal about what we do to ourselves?”
And that is something we really should look at. There’s lot of room for humanity to grow there.
From Earning to Allowing
In a world where machines can perform tasks better, faster, and cheaper than humans ever could, we are collectively nudged toward the truth we’ve always resisted: Doing isn’t where our power lies. Being is. Being doesn’t mean “passivity”. It means alignment. Alignment to what? Alignment to our natural state of unlimited love.
It means shifting from survival-driven effort to joy-inspired action. We weren’t meant to grind. We were meant to attune. To hear what wants to move through us and follow that—not because it earns our worth, but because it feels authentically like us.
That’s the path forward in the age of AI: not more performance, but more permission. The challenge, again, the opportunity for growth in that is realizing when we feel a knee-jerk, negative reaction to each of us being “love”, that negative reaction, that resistance, is not the truth. It’s an entry point.
It’s an entry point to greater self love and appreciation as well as the appreciation of others…ALL others. This isn’t new age, smarmy, pap. It’s the future. A future where humanity can begin thriving and stop grinding, hustling and, in the process, missing out on the beauty of All That Is.
What AI Can’t Touch
Let’s look at some things we gloss over when thinking about artificial intelligence: It cannot feel joy. AI cannot love. Artificial intelligence cannot soften into a dream and wake up with new eyes, a new perspective, and a thrill only given to the dreamer. AI cannot hold a newborn and see the Universe in its eyes. It can simulate. AI can predict. It can assist. But it cannot be. That’s our realm.
So is the realm of eternity. Some humans strive for immortality in the age of AI. The paradox is, we already are immortal. We live on beyond what humans call death. It’s just that so many of us have failed to remember that absolute fact.
Our eternal presence — conscious, connected, flowing — is the greatest asset on Earth. Because it’s through that presence that All That Is expands. It always was that way and will forever be that way.
But now, as machines take over the doing, machines offer us the opportunity for our being to move to the forefront. For being to take center stage. It’s the opportunity for the authentic us to shine. So if you fear replacement, don’t. Instead, embody radiance.
How? I write about that every week here in my blog and now, I talk about it on YouTube.
You Are the Dreamer, Not a Product
None of us came here to compete with the tools we create. We came to wake up inside the dream. AI is part of that dream—again, crafted by us, for us. It’s not meant to make us obsolete, it can’t do that. But it can give us back the one thing we’ve forgotten how to trust: our innate creative worth. The more we relax into who we really are, the more everything begins to rearrange itself around that knowing.
We don’t need to scramble to stay ahead of the curve. The curve is us. We are the evolution. So let this moment be what it really is: a call to reengage and trust our alignment. Let the machines do what they’re here to do—so we can do what only we can do: Love, radiate, exist in-joy. Be.
Our worth is not at risk. Our worth is rising. And the more we let it, the more everything—AI included—will reflect that truth back to each and every one of us.