Grief in the AI Age

I want to talk about this moment in time, this AI era, through the lens of grief. Grief is a powerful response to loss. When we think about grief, we often think about death, but it’s taken me a long time to understand that we grieve all sorts of non-death loss: relationships, community, home, money, dreams, expectations, identity, sense of purpose, and even the loss of ideals or ideas. It’s taken a ton of time and a hell of a lot of work to understand my own grief as I’ve recovered from my many and varied traumas over the years. I’ve also learned a ton about grief from my wife, Melissa, who through her journey to become a professional counselor has worked in hospice and other really challenging environments involving grief, death, and loss. It’s through my own experience and awareness of grief that I start noticing it in other places. AI and the 5 Stages of Grief The explosion of AI onto the scene has caused a shock to the system has triggered a real grief response for many people…